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A Massage Therapist’s Guide to
Pathology
Critical Thinking and Practical Application
Sixth Edition
By
Ruth Werner, LMP, NCTMB
, President, Massage Therapy Founda-
tion, Waldport, OR
DESCRIPTION
Help your students build strong clinical reasoning and clinical thinking skills
with the new edition of RuthWerner’s bestselling pathology text for massage
therapist students, also available as an enhanced interactive eBook.
A Massage Therapist’s Guide to Pathology, Sixth Edition
continues to
set the standard for the course through up-to-date, high-value content, an outstanding illustration program, and the
author’s trademark accessible writing style. With skill and passion, Werner makes pathology fascinating and under-
standable for massage therapy students as it prepares them to work independently or within a health care team to
make choices that result in the best possible outcomes for clients living with a wide range of diseases and disorders.
Updated throughout to reflect the latest research, the Sixth Edition now offers a stronger focus on evidence-in-
formed practice. And, to keep pace with evolving standards, the Sixth Edition is now ELAP-compliant, has testing
formats compatible with the MBLEx exam, and features updated content consistent with the DSM-V. For prior us-
ers, a detailed chapter-by-chapter conversion guide is available to ease transition from the Fifth to the Sixth Edition.
FEATURES
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FOCUS ON MBLEx PREP:
The Werner Test Generator and Quiz Bank now offers a new MBLEx-
compatible question format to better prepare students for the standardized format of the only massage therapy
certification exam accepted by most states.
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CRITICALTHINKING
: Each chapter’s new open-ended “What Would You Do?” questions stimulate
discussion, further research, and suggest student projects that emphasize skills in synthesizing, organizing, and
prioritizing information.
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EVIDENCE-BASED:
A new “Research” section that appears with the “risks, benefits and options” tables
summarizes current published massage therapy research in the context of the condition under discussion,
exposing students to research literacy and evidence-informed practice.
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CURRENT STANDARDS
: Chapter 4, “Nervous System Conditions,” has been restructured and augmented
to comply with DSM-5 standards (
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed
., 2013).
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RESEARCH SKILLS
: The section on how to use PubMed and Google Scholar now appears in Appendix B,
Evidence-Informed Practice, to help students use reliable internet databases search to find the information they
need.
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NEW PATHOLOGIES COVERED
: Morton neuroma (Chapter 3); separation anxiety, bipolar disorder type
1 and type 2, cyclothymia, mixed bipolar, rapid cycling bipolar, psychotic depression, premenstrual dysphoric
disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, excoriation disorder, trichotillomania, hoarding disorder, dissociative
PTSD, reactive attachment disorder (Chapter 4); and amputations, pulmonary fibrosis, Sjogren syndrome,
hemochromatosis, bladder stones, and conjunctivitis (Appendix C, At AGlance).
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Over 500 conditions are covered, along with conclusions that suggest massage benefits, risks, and options
for special strategies when appropriate and a brief summary of recent pertinent research with links to peer-
reviewed articles.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Massage Therapy
Note to Booksellers:
The previous edition published in March, 2012. (ISBN: 978-1-60831-910-7)
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