Facilitated Stretching 4th Edition Robert E Mcatee Jeff Charland by Robert E. Mcatee, Jeff Charland 9781450434317, 1450434312 instant download after payment.

   Welcome to the fourth edition of Facilitated Stretching , marking its 20th anniversary by converting to full-color photos and illustrations throughout. We appreciate the support of our 100,000-plus readers who have continued to offer feedback about how to make the book more useful for therapists, trainers, coaches, and athletes of every stripe and ability level. Whether you’re an accomplished athlete or are just beginning a fitness program, you’ll find that the regular use of facilitated stretching will help you improve your flexibility and coordination, which can help improve the overall enjoyment of your chosen sport. If you’re a manual therapist, massage therapist, athletic trainer, personal trainer, sport physician, or coach, you’ll find valuable information and techniques here for optimizing your athletes’ flexibility, coordination, and performance.

    After reviewing reader feedback, we’ve refocused this fourth edition to more fully reflect the continued interest in training to optimize function and to acknowledge the burgeoning research on the role of fascia in transmitting the forces generated during stretching through adjacent muscles and connective tissue. To this end, we’ve grouped the stretches around each joint, with less emphasis on individual muscles. 

You’ll find more than 20 tables, 50 illustrations, and 250 full-color photographs illustrating the stretches and strengthening exercises. To enhance your understanding, we’ve added graphic elements to selected photos that show the muscles under the skin. Additionally, stylized arrows are placed on selected stretch photos to aid in visualizing the direction of the isometric or the hold effort for the stretcher and the partner.