美國國傢運動醫學學會（National Academy of Sports Medicine ,NASM）成立於1987年，是一傢大眾健身和運動員專業訓練領域的培訓、教育和認證機構，為其會員提供課程培訓、學校教育和考試認證等業務。NASM在全球健身行業中頗具影響力，自成立以來，為大量的健身專業人士提供瞭培訓和認證，主要強調大眾健身的健康功效以及運動員訓練的方法，是運動健身領域公認的四大認證之一。

NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training introduces the health and fitness professional to NASM’s proprietary Corrective Exercise Continuum, a system of training that uses corrective exercise strategies to help improve muscle imbalances and movement efficiency to decrease the risk of injury. This textbook includes several new chapters that were not included in NASM’s previous corrective exercise materials, including the rationale for corrective exercise training, assessments of health risk, static postural assessments, range of motion assessments, and strength assessments (manual muscle testing) as well as corrective exercise strategies for the cervical spine, elbow, and wrist. There are more than 100 corrective exercise techniques in the categories of self-myofascial release, static stretching, neuromuscular stretching, isolated strength training, positional isometrics, and integrated dynamic movements included in the text. These, along with corrective exercise strategies for common movement impairments seen in each segment of the body, make this text the premier resource for learning and applying NASM’s systematic approach to corrective exercise training.