Swedish Resources

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Thursday, 14 August 2008 13:01

DVDs/Videos
Books about the Massage Style
Books for Context including Digitized Nineteenth Century Books

DVDs/Videos

If you have gone to massage school, these will be very basic, but you might get a few good riffs out of them. If you have not gone to massage school they will be more useful.

Swedish Massage DVD and Workbook with Dr. James Mally (90 min)

Essentials of Swedish Massage by Meade Steadman and Shirley Erickson Gorospe (135 min - Aesthetic Videosource)

Therapeutic Massage DVD by Donna Sunday and Sean Riehl (70 min - Real Bodywork)

Youtube Videos Not Advertising DVDs

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=massageclips2

Books about the Massage Style

Massage School Textbooks

Milady's Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage by Mark F. Beck

Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage by Sandy Fritz

Massage Therapy: Principles & Practice by Susan G. Salvo

Tappan's Handbook of Healing Massage Techniques: Classic, Holistic and Emerging Methods by Patricia Benjamin and Frances M. Tappan

Beard's Massage: Principles and Practice of Soft Tissue Manipulation by Giovanni DeDomenico

Books for Studying for the NCBTMB Certification Exam

Review for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Certification by By Joseph Ashton, Duke Cassel

Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More by Andrew R. Biel, Robin Dorn

Books for Context

History of Massage

The History of Massage: An Illustrated Survey from around the World by Robert Noah Calvert

Several historical articles by this author are available at Massage Magazine Pages from History

Who founded Swedish massage? - article at worldmassageforum.com

Digitized Nineteenth Century Books (sorted by date with timeline elements)

1813 - Per Henrik Ling founds The Royal Gymnastic Central Institute (Kungliga gymnastiska cen-tralinetitutet, GCI) in Stockholm, Sweden

1840 - Per Henrik Ling - Gymnastikens allmänna grunder (The General Principles of Gymnastics)

1847 - Augustus Georgii - Kinésithérapie; ou, Traitement des maladies par le mouvement, selon la méthode de Ling: Suivi d'un abrégé des applications de la théorie de Ling à l'éducation physique

1851 - 38 institutions for education in Swedish Movements have been founded, most in Germany

1851 - Mathias Roth - The Prevention and Cure of Many Chronic Diseases by Movements. An Exposition of the Principles and Practice by These Movements for the Correction of the Tendencies to Disease in Infancy, Childhood, and Youth, and for the Cure of Many Morbid Affections of Adults.
(This is the first book published in English on the subject of Swedish Movements. Mathias Roth was a Hungarian born physician who studied with Ling and later emigrated to England. He was the teacher of Charles Fayette Taylor brother of George H Taylor who wrote the first American book on the subject.)

1852 - Mathias Roth - Movements Or Exercises, According to Ling's System, for the Due Development and Strengthening of the Human Body in Childhood and in Youth (extract from larger book above, Full text PDF available)

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An Exposition of the Swedish movement-cure: Together with a Summary of the Principles of General Hygiene
By George Herbert Taylor
Published by Fowler and Wells, 1860 (Full text PDF available)
http://books.google.com/books?id=hWi8pUMZq4AC&printsec=toc

Details about the Taylors - http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com/archives/2008/05/14/the-taylor-surname-and-homeopathy/

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An exposition of the Swedish movement-cure ... together with a summary of the principles of general hygiene (1860) Author: Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896
http://www.archive.org/details/expositionofswed00taylrich (Full text PDF available)

An Exposition of the Swedish Movement-cure ... By George Herbert Taylor, Geo H Taylor http://books.google.com/books?id=77YfAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage (Full text PDF available)

Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure By Charles Fayette Taylor

http://books.google.com/books?id=MPANISv1mh0C&printsec=titlepage&dq=swedish+movement+cure&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0

Dr. Taylor's Improved Movement Cure Institute

http://www.geocities.com/unclesamsfarm/drtaylor.htm
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The human body and its connexion with man: Illustrated by the Principal Organs
By James John Garth Wilkinson
Published by Chapman and Hall, 1860
http://books.google.com/books?id=iR8DAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA365,M1

The Anatriptic art
By Walter Johnson
Published by Simpkin, Marshall, 1866
http://books.google.com/books?id=fxcJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Kinetic jottings: miscellaneous extracts illustrating the effects of mechanical agencies in the treatment of disease
By Augustus Georgii
Published by , 1880
http://books.google.com/books?id=phgDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPR1,M1

A Practical Treatise on Massage: Its History, Mode of Application, and Effects, Indications and Contra-indications; with Results in Over Fourteen Hundred Cases
By Douglas Graham
Published by William Wood & Co., 1884
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gl8QAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Massage: Principles and Practice of Remedial Treatment by Imparted Motion
By George Herbert Taylor
Published by J.B. Alden, 1887
http://books.google.com/books?id=vlqBsuzSOiEC&printsec=titlepage

Massage as a Mode of Treatment
By William Murrell, Wm Murrell
Published by H.K. Lewis, 1887

Emil Kleen. Handbok i massage, 1888-1890

A Manual of Instruction for Giving Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment
By Hartvig Nissen
Published by F.A. Davis, 1889

Massotherapeutics
By William Murrell
Published by Blakiston, 1890
http://books.google.com/books?id=SKBjY1_2JCIC&printsec=titlepage

Massage and the Original Swedish Movements: Their Application to Various Diseases of the Body
By Kurre Wilhelm Ostrom
Published by Blakiston, 1891
http://books.google.com/books?id=9TAB2dLSf6MC&printsec=frontcover

Handbook of Massage
By Emil Kleen, Emil Andreas Gabriel Kleen, Edward Mussey Hartwell
Published by Blakiston, 1892

The Art of Massage: Its Physiological and Therapeutic Applications
By John Harvey Kellogg
Published by Modern medicine publishing co, 1895
http://www.meridianinstitute.com/eamt/files/kellogg/kelcont.html

Handbook of Massage
By Gustaf Mauritz Norström
Published by s.n., 1896
http://books.google.com/books?id=phUCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage

A Text book of Mechano-Therapy (Massage and Medical Gymnastics): Especially Prepared for the Use of Medical Students and Trained Nurses
By Axel V Grafstrom
Published by O.M. Foegri, 1897
http://books.google.com/books?id=mRUCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Massage: Its History, Technique and Therapeutic Uses.
By Richard Haehl
Published by Printed by Dunlap, 1898

Manual Therapeutics, a Treatise on Massage: Its History, Mode of Application and Effects, Indications and Contra-indications
By Douglas Graham, Armand Darier
Published by Lippincott, 1902
http://books.google.com/books?id=HUmhR9d_HMwC&printsec=titlepage

The Elements of Kellgren's Manual Treatment
By Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax
Published by W. Wood and co., 1904
http://books.google.com/books?id=NwQTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Practical Massage in Twenty Lessons
By Hartvig Nissen
Published by F. A. Davis, 1905
http://books.google.com/books?id=DWsMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Practical Massage and Corrective Exercises
By Hartvig Nissen
Published by F.A. Davis, 1916
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gjnb0iwj93wC&printsec=titlepage

Massage and Therapeutic Exercise
By Mary McMillan
Published by W. B. Saunders company, 1921
http://books.google.com/books?id=qxUCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage

Emil A. G. Kleen. Massage And Medical Gymnastics, 1921
Digitized - http://chestofbooks.com/health/body/massage/Massage-And-Medical-Gymnastics/
Amazon - <a rel="nofollow" href="/jos/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00087ILNS?ie=UTF8&tag=theultimatlearna&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00087ILNS and medical gymnastics</a>

Physiotherapy Technic: A Manual of Applied Physics
By Chris Martin Sampson
Published by C.V. Mosby Company, 1923