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Mel Cash


Mel Cash BA, LCSP (Assoc) has been a massage therapist since 1985, and has become one of the world's leading authorities on the subject through his books. He is the founder and principal tutor of the London School of Sports Massage, Director of the Institute of Sport and Remedial Massage, and has lectured in anatomy and physiology at the University of Westminster. He has previously written 3 books on the subject of massage: Sports Massage (with Dr Jari Ylinen), Sport & Remedial Massage Therapy and Pocket Atlas of the Moving Body.

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