Massage and Manual therapy are physically and emotionally demanding work that puts practitioners at risk for pain, burnout, and career-threatening injuries.

But injury is not inevitable. Save Your Hands! provides extensively updated, revised, expanded and proven strategies to protect your health, enhance your practice, and extend your career. It helps save your hands, back, neck, shoulders and wellbeing throughout a long career. That's why it's now the gold standard for injury prevention in massage therapy and manual therapy training and professional practice.

Lauriann Greene is co-author of Save Your Hands! The Complete Guide to Injury Prevention and Ergonomics for Manual Therapists, 3rd Edition, the leading self-care text for manual treatment professionals including physical therapists, massage therapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers, osteopaths and nurses. As one of the leading authorities on work-related injury among manual therapists, Lauriann has written numerous articles for major U.S., UK and international manual therapy publications, speaks regularly at leading conferences including the AMTA National Conference and IECSC, and co-authored a 2006 study that produced the first reliable statistics on work-related injury among American massage therapists. Trained as a manual therapist and a Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist, Lauriann offers injury prevention and ergonomics consulting and training services to spas, clinics and other businesses that employ manual treatment professionals, to help them reduce workers' comp claims, absenteeism and turnover due to injury on the job. Her company also offers continuing education (CE) courses.