Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More (3rd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew R. Biel
Creator: Robin Dorn
Publisher: Books of Discovery
Category: Book
List Price: $52.95
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 5303
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 420
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0965853454
Dewey Decimal Number: 612
EAN: 9780965853453
Publication Date: July 15, 2005
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
Never thought it could get better, but it DID ... February 23, 2006
kre8iv1 (Flemington, NJ)
63 out of 64 found this review helpful
I received the 2nd ed. of this book in massage school.
I purchased the 3rd ed. to study for my National test.
WOW! I truly did not think this book could have gotten any better, but it DID! It shows all different views of muscles, muscle groups, bones, boney landmarks, how to find boney landmarks to find muscles, latin/greek roots of the words, study hints, remembering devices, WONDERFUL illustrations!
I also purchased the Student Workbook - which is an ENTIRELY new text with this edition - and it has a lot of different ways to test yourself to prepare for tests.
If you need to know ANYTHING relating to the muscles/bones of the body, YOU NEED THIS BOOK! Don't let the cost fool you ... it is NOT overpriced. I used to think it was (when I found out how much it was by itself - my 2nd ed. was included with my tuition at school), until I bought this new edition.
They added an obscene amount of new pages, and updated their illustrations to make them even EASIER to understand.
If you have any doubts about this book, log on to the publishers website discoverybooks . com - there are excerpts, downloadable pages, etc.
Hope this helps.
outstandingly easy to read, understand and put into practice September 25, 1998
carmel@wolfenet.com Dave Oder,LMP (Seattle,WA)
77 out of 81 found this review helpful
As a bodyworker I find the preciseness of locating the noted landmarks shown in "Trailguide to the Body" give the novice as well as thel established massage therapist, osteopath, physical therapist, chiropractor or medical doctor an amazing ability to find, palpate and ultimately treat clients with a practical ease not commonly found in other texts.
Awesome book January 8, 2004
Judith E. Pavluvcik (Dreaming of the beach in California, but living in the reality of the desert in Arizona!!)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
Trail Guide to the Body is an invaluable resource for any massage therapist or body-worker wanting to know the intricacies of the body, and the correlation of the muscles and bones. The illustrations are incredible, showing wonderful detail. Written information is concise, informative, and thoroughly presented. Muscles include such information as: the action, insertion, origin, and nerves. Palpation is also shown along with instructions on "how-to".The authors have also recently released flash cards for the muscles and another set for the bones. I absolutely loved them and carried them around with to study. Awesome book! Great reference and one book that I refer to time and time again!
Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones... October 12, 2000
57 out of 58 found this review helpful
Finally, a palpatory anatomy book that speaks TO you instead of talking AT you! This is the kind of book that students put aside all other anatomy books for because it is a self teaching text. It directly teaches you how to become adept at feeling for and finding structures on the body. In the realm of being a manual therapist, the more you can teach your hands to "see", "feel", and know structures, the more skilled and effective you are. This book is excellent for those who want to be able to have confidence in doing this, and have fun learning anatomy!
Book from Heaven January 15, 2000
D. Schmid (USA)
52 out of 52 found this review helpful
This book helped me to Ace my Kinesiology as well as Anatomy. Now that I am a fully licensed Massage Therapist, I use this book quite often in my practice. It has been a good friend! Excellent illustrations - for the beginner and advanced student - it is truly a book from heaven.
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