McAtee, Robert - LMT

Robert E. McAtee, LMT, BCTMB has maintained a full-time massage therapy practice for over 45 years, specializing in sports massage and soft tissue therapy, with significant clinical experience treating people with injuries and chronic pain. His clientele includes Olympic and professional athletes, dancers, performers, and recreational athletes as well as countless patients suffering from soft-tissue injuries.

Since 1988, Bob has owned Pro-Active Massage Therapy, an active, international private practice in Colorado Springs, CO. He is Board Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and has been an active member of the AMTA since 1988. In the course of his long career, he became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA 1998), and a certified personal trainer (ACE 2006). Bob has since retired the personal training and strength and conditioning portions of his practice.

In addition to his private practice, Bob is an NCBTMB Approved Provider and a sought-after presenter throughout the U.S. and internationally on the topics of facilitated stretching, sports massage, and soft-tissue injury care.

He is the author of the best-selling Human Kinetics book, "Facilitated Stretching", 5th edition, used by health and fitness professionals worldwide as the go-to resource for PNF stretching and strengthening techniques. Since the release of the 1st edition in 1994, Facilitated Stretching has sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Bob's other book, "Sports Massage for Injury Care", was released through Human Kinetics in 2019.

Bob invented the patented Hand-L Massage Tool, used by manual therapists worldwide to save their thumbs.

For more information, please go to: www.stretchman.com. NCBTMB # 294954-00.