Product Description

NEW Third Edition!
This acclaimed book teaches readers to palpate the body's structures with ease and precision. The beautifully illustrated, user-friendly guide to the muscular and skeletal systems makes learning the necessary bodywork skills interesting, memorable and easy. With 420 pages and 1,100 illustrations, this 3rd edition covers more than 125 muscles, 206 bones, 30 ligaments and 110 bony landmarks. It provides an invaluable map of the body.
New to this edition:
Synergists: Muscles Working Together - 75 new illustrations showing the muscles that perform a movement "in action".
40 new illustrations showing ligaments and deeper structures of the joints.
Palpation information for 10 muscles new to Trail Guide.
Basic information for 25 additional muscles, most of which are unpalpable but fill out a reader's knowledge and understanding.
200 revised 2nd Edition illustrations
Palpatory Journal Page - encouraging readers to create their own "palpation diary" based on their hands-on experiences.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3484 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-15
• Released on: 2005-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 420 pages

Review
Nice integration of multiple anatomical components, such as anatomical terms, surface anatomy, palpations and information on muscles and anatomical structures. --James E. Leone, M.S., LAT, ATC, CSCS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Education Coordinator

To use it is to love it! I will recommend the text and adopt it into my course material. --Dr. James Kellogg, Florida A&M University

Trail Guide is an essential reference for any hands-on healer. --Thomas Myers, Rolfer, trainer of Structural Integration, author of Anatomy Trains-Myofascial Meridians

James E. Leone, M.S., LAT, ATC, CSCS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Education Coordinator
Nice integration of multiple anatomical components, such as anatomical terms, surface anatomy, palpations and information on muscles and anatomical structures.

Dr. James Kellogg, Florida A&M University
To use it is to love it! I will recommend the text and adopt it into my course material.

Customer Reviews

Best Book for the medical field
I am currently in a Licensed Massage Therapy schoool and this is the best book. The illustrations are clear and detailed. I recommend this book to all future people going into the medical field.

Excellent resource for all hands on therapists!
A most impressive and down to earth guide to understanding the essential "landmarks" of the human body with regards to the needs of physical therapists, massage therapists, or anyone that uses range of motion testing, joint mobility, joint distraction, or soft tissue massage techniques in their clinical practice. Very easy to understand and relate to actual scenarios without the usual heavy reliance on dry medical jargon. Highly recommended!

I must have!!
A must have for all Massage Therapists! It should be the anatomy textbook in all massage schools!