On this "umbrella" site you'll find information and links to my work as a sports massage therapist, educator, published author, and inventor. Since 1988, I've maintained an active, international sports massage practice in Colorado Springs, where I specialize in sports massage, soft tissue therapy, facilitated stretching techniques, and kinesiotaping.

Here are some shortcuts to ordering my books directly from Amazon ( I may receive a small commission when you use these links). You can order my new book and/or my classic, Facilitated Stretching directly from Human Kinetics.

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Soft Tissue Therapy

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Soft tissue therapy is designed to help people who have sustained injury to their muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues. Injuries that respond well to soft tissue therapy include whiplash; repetitive use syndromes, like carpal tunnel syndrome; low-back pain, tendinitis, ankle sprains, and pulled muscles.

Book: Sports Massage for Injury Care

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Enable your clients and patients to get back in the game and live pain free after injury. In Sports Massage for Injury Care, experienced sports therapist Bob McAtee explains the types of soft tissue injury most common in sport and explains why manual therapy is so valuable in treating musculoskeletal injuries.

Book: Facilitated Stretching

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Facilitated Stretching, Fourth Edition With Online Video, remains the most trusted resource for proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching, an effective and easy-to-use method that involves stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, and then stretching it again to increase range of motion.

Brief Tutorial for Facilitated Stretching

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Although facilitated stretching is an easy technique to learn, there are important, if subtle, factors to understand and master. In this section, we describe an easy-to-remember three-step stretching protocol, then discuss critical elements of the technique that must be applied to achieve optimum results.

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