Anatomy & Bodywork Books
Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists. 2nd Edition.
Understanding the role of fascia in healthy movement and postural distortion is of vital importance to bodyworkers and movement therapists. Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists presents a unique ‘whole systems’ view of myofascial/ locomotor anatomy in which the bodywide connections among the muscles within the fascial net are described in detail for the first time.
Anatomy Trains provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the anatomy and function of the myofascial system in the body. The new edition includes a DVD ROM containing video of techniques, Anatomy Trains-based dissections and computer animations of the myofascial meridian lines.
Trail Guide to the Body Textbook: How to locate muscles, bones and more. THIRD EDITION! by Andrew Biel
Before you can assess or treat a muscle, you first must be able to locate it on the body. This acclaimed book, used in more than 1,700 manual therapy schools, is designed as a hands-on tour that will teach you to palpate the body's structure with ease and precision. With 420 pages and 1,100 illustrations covering more than 144 muscles, 206 bones, 30 ligaments and 110 bony landmarks, this text provides an invaluable map of the body. Whether you are a massage therapist, physical therapist, sports trainer or student in any bodywork modality, Trail Guide to the Body is for you!
Are you looking for a convenient study tool to help you ace your next anatomy exam? Then try the 3rd edition flashcards. Volume 1 covers the Skeletal System, Joints and Ligaments and Movements of the Body, with 175 cards in a two-color format. Volume 2 covers Muscles of the Human Body (169 cards).
If you want to differentiate your psoas from your scalenes or just want to ace the next quiz, you'll find the answer here. This handbook follows the chapters and structures as they are arranged in the Trail Guide to the Body textbook.
A resourceful complement, this handbook contains 220 pages and 450 illustrations. It offers a variety of questions and exercises including fill-in-the-blanks, drawings to color, illustrations and matching exercises. A fun learning tool that will test a student's Trail Guide knowledge as well as prepare you for national exams.
with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns, and Stretching by Dr. Joe Muscolino
With more than 1,000 vibrant, full-color illustrations and 2 DVDs with over 4 hours of detailed video demonstrations, THE MUSCLE AND BONE PALPATION MANUAL is the most visually engaging way to help you master and successfully apply palpation techniques in massage therapy. This innovative text uses unique, richly detailed photographic illustrations of muscles as they appear under the skin to give you a thorough understanding of effective palpation. This comprehensive guide provides unparalleled preparation for professional success.
The Muscular System Manual, 3rd Edition
The Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body
The Muscular System Manual by Dr. Joseph E. Muscolino makes the study of musculoskeletal anatomy easier and more engaging with a highly visual approach! This innovative, vibrantly illustrated atlas details the muscles and bones of the human body with unrivaled clarity and helps you build the strong anatomic understanding needed for success in practice.
By Joseph Muscolino, DC
This complete, full-color atlas of bones and joints contains over 900 illustrations and explains how muscles function as movers, antagonists, and stabilizers so readers will truly understand how muscles function in the human body. It includes the bones, landmarks, and joints, as well as an introduction to the basics of how muscles function. Plus, includes a DVD with over 60 minutes of video demonstrating all the major joint motions of the human body.
This best selling book has been written for practitioner of anatomy, massage / bodywork, physical therapy, chiropractic, medicine, physiotherapy, or any other health-related field. Containing full-color illustrations, it is a compact reference guide, clearly identifying all the major muscles, showing the origin, insertion, action, and innervation of each muscle. The book also uniquely illustrates examples of stretching and strengthening exercises for each muscle, allowing the reader to develop an understanding of the mechanics of movement.
By Susan Standring, PhD, DSc
A universal landmark in anatomy ever since Drs. Henry Gray and H.V. Carter published the first edition in 1858, Gray's Anatomy now celebrates its 150th anniversary! From state-of-the-art coverage of important new areas such as functional neuroimaging, embryogenesis, and biomechanics . . . through a comprehensively revamped, lavish full-color art program . . . .
for the study of dance, pilates, sport and yoga
Serves as a bridge between biomechanics and exercise. Awareness of movement potential is the key to a healthy body and the prevention of injuries; this text allows the reader to help maintain health, weight, posture, strength, stretch, and performance skills. The practice of sport, pilates, yoga, and dance is emphasized, providing a better understanding of how the body functions whilst being exercised.
160 pages, 120 colour drawings
Books on stretching are common, but The Anatomy of Stretching takes a more fundamental approach than the others, taking the reader inside the body to show exactly what is happening during a stretch. At the heart of the book are 300 full-color illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles worked in 115 key stretches arranged by body area. Author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention—to this how-to guide.
The Anatomy of Sports Injuries by Brad Walker
Everyone who plays sports experiences injuries. Many people never fully recover because they’re not aware of what they can do to facilitate recovery. But there’s no need to simply resign yourself to “living with” a sports injury. In The Anatomy of Sports Injuries, author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention—to this how-to guide. The book takes a fundamental approach, bringing you inside the body to show exactly what is happening when a sports injury occurs.
is the only book that provides fully detailed anatomical images of each muscle during any stretch; it is like having a full-color X-ray for every stretch. It shows exactly how to reap the benefits of stretching with detailed instruction on changing positions to alter the muscle emphasis and improving safety and effectiveness.
The Anatomy of
Pilates by Paul Massey
The Anatomy of Pilates shows what actually happens to the body’s muscles and joints during Pilates exercises. Each two-page spread features detailed anatomical illustrations of an exercise (with muscle actions highlighted in red), a detailed description of the exercise and its objectives, the particular breathing pattern to be used, a list of the specific muscles being worked, visualization techniques, complementary exercises, and more.
Anatomy of Movement presents a dynamic, integrated approach to the study of the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system and their functional relationship to the movements of the human body. In clear and concise text illustrated with more than a thousand graphic drawings, the author guides the reader on a lively tour of the muscles, bones, ligaments and joints of the arms, legs and trunk. The focus throughout the book is on anatomy not for its own sake, but in its functional relationship to the actual movements of the body in dance, exercise and other physical disciplines.
Blandine Calais-Germain Andrée Lamotte
Anatomy of Movement: Exercises, the companion volume to Anatomy of Movement, describes and illustrates, through hundreds of photographs and drawings, a comprehensive series of exercises involving the most common movements of the body. Over a hundred new illustrations were added in this revised edition.
Everyone breathes, yet few of us understand how to consciously control breathing to improve our well-being and the quality of many daily activities. Anatomy of Breathing is a clear and helpful guide to both the theory and practice of breathing in its many variations. Hundreds of expert drawings along with easy-to-understand text help you explore just how breathing works.
The Female Pelvis: Anatomy & Exercises by Blandine Calais-Germain
The female pelvis and its contents are an underappreciated region of the anatomy. Important not only for sexuality, they are also central to the processes of childbirth and elimination.
The Female Pelvis was written for women to use over the course of their lives, with a special emphasis on pregnancy, childbirth, and its aftermath. Its purpose is to help women become more familiar with the pelvis and its related structures, and how to keep them healthy and fit.
This is everything you ever wanted to know about the pelvis but were afraid to ask. Louis Schultz examines the male pelvis under the dual lens of culture and science. North American culture prizes male strength, upper-body bulk, and muscularity, but ignores male genitalia for anything other than sexual function. The author strives to increase knowledge of this body region with a guide to male pelvic anatomy and a discussion of male sexual pleasure and emotions.
This virtually indispensable guide to massage and bodywork is now available in an expanded third edition. Possibly the most famous and widely used single resource in the field of bodywork (required for national certification in massage therapy in the US), this beautifully written book gives a richly detailed picture of how and why the body responds to therapeutic touch. A reader-friendly yet scientifically reliable and detailed introduction to the human body.
The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality
This is a definitive text on the fascia, the organ of structure, it presents a comprehensive guide to working effectively with the myofascial system, the "packing material" of the body. This fully illustrated guide helps you understand how fascia works, what its role is within the body's anatomy, and how gentle manipulation of the myofascial tissue is central to lasting therapeutic intervention. This book also explores the multi faceted influence fascia has on our ever changing structures, from the embryo to the adult.
The Myofascial Release Manual is now available in a completely updated and comprehensive Fourth Edition 2008. Continuing the tradition that started over 20 years ago and with a new focus on the current terminology regarding each technique.
This book has a user-friendly format that concentrates on the specific "how-to's" of the myofascial techniques, as well as offering an explanation of the theory and experience of the method of Myofascial Release.
Fascial Manipulation by Luigi Stecco
The fascia, with both its macroscopic and microscopic structure, is the map that can help to orientate any research into the origin of locomotor apparatus’ disorders. This book, which is the outcome of thousands of treatments carried out over the last twenty-five years, provides the necessary guidelines for reading this map. Up until now, perhaps due to its intrinsic complexity, the role of the fascia has been relegated to that of containment.
Fascial Manipulation - Practical Part by Luigi Stecco & Carla Stecco
Welcome to an exciting new field in musculoskeletal therapy: the fascinating world of fascia. This manual provides practical techniques to facilitate the treatment of the fascia. It describes the topographical location of all the points, the respective movement tests and the modality of treatment for each point. In order to manipulate the fascia it is essential to know the exact location of the points, to perform the movement examinations correctly and to position the patient appropriately for each treatment.
With 288 pages, more than 250 photographs and over 50 detailed anatomy illustrations, this in depth book clearly illustrates hundreds of effective therapeutic myofascial release techniques. This book presents a wealth of information in a way the therapist can immediately utilize. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a preface to the new edition, a foreword by Tom Myers, an index, a Suggested Reading list, and extended sections on integrating deep tissue massage into bodywork practice and the psychology of treating injuries.
Erik Dalton's Advanced Myoskeletal Techniques will revolutionize your approach to treating complex pain and injury conditions. The 325 page colorfully illustrated book eloquently blends exciting new muscle/joint research with eighty innovative hands-on techniques…a perfect addition to any sports medicine, structural integration or medical massage practice.
The fasciae comprise a wide variety of body tissues including the membranes, ligaments, tendons, and mesenteries. These tissues are all derived from the mesoderm, which undergoes coiling or rolling movements during embryonic development. This is the origin of the inherent micro-movements, or motility, that are so important in many osteopathic approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
Fascial and Membrane Technique. A manual for comprehensive treatment of the connective tissue system. by Peter Schwind, PhD
The Fascial and Membrane Technique developed by Peter Schwind combines the fundamental thoughts from Ida Rolf´s Structural Integration with concepts of Osteopathy. With this a successful combination of form-stabilising and mobilising techniques has emerged. Due to this holistic approach the concept will appeal to all manual working therapists.
Written for soft-tissue practitioners, this manual gives thorough instructions on how to elegantly and easily release joint restrictions in the spine, sacrum, pelvis, and ribs using soft-tissue techniques rather than high velocity, low amplitude thrusting techniques that "pop" the joints. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, it also provides one of the easiest to understand explanations of biomechanics in print.
Harmonic Healing. A Guide to Facilitated Oscillatory Release and Other Rhythmic Myofascial Techniques
by Zachary Comeaux
Connective tissue release, or myofascial release, is a major component of manual therapies, including osteopathic medicine. Most methods involve placing the patient in a passive, relaxed position for diagnosis and treatment. However, many practitioners have intuitively sensed that rhythmic motion should be a component of therapy, and increasingly include it in their practice. Harmonic Healing introduces such an application of connective tissue principles, which author Dr. Zachary Comeaux calls Facilitated Oscillatory Release (FOR).
Orthopaedics or Orthopedics (US) according to the Oxford dictionary is “branch of medicine dealing with the correction of diseased, deformed or injured bones and muscles”. Whitney Lowe defined orthopedic massage as a broad spectrum of techniques and approaches to treat soft-tissue dysfunction.
The definitive resource for all those wanting to use massage therapy to treat pain and injury conditions. This text presents a comprehensive and in-depth look at the physiological nature of these conditions and the massage treatments most effective for their relief.
Orthopedic Assessment in Massage Therapy is written for the soft-tissue practitioner or student seeking to improve their understanding and treatment of soft-tissue dysfunction. Any healthcare practitioner involved in treating soft-tissue disorders with massage will find this text beneficial.
Orthopedic Assessment applies established methods to massage therapy evaluation. How soft-tissues function, their roles, and the primary ways in which they are damaged are explored in the first part of the book. The symptoms, causes, and evaluation of numerous common conditions are discussed in detail in the remaining chapters.
Ligamentous Articular Strain: Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques for the Body
Ligamentous articular strain is the name given by William G. Sutherland, D.O., the founder of cranial osteopathy, to a group of techniques that he used for treating the body outside the core axis of the craniosacral system. The term has since come to refer to a wide variety of techniques including myofascial release that engage the body's own healing mechanisms in a relatively direct manner.
Fascial Release for Structural Balance by James Earls & Tom Myers
Fascial Release for Structural Balance joins your manual therapy skills together with the exciting new field of structural therapy, which employs the unique and newly discovered properties of fascial tissues. Fascia is our biological fabric that plays a vital role in support, posture, and stability. Through informed assessment and manipulation of fascial patterns, you can help eradicate (for good) many chronic strain patterns clients bring to the clinic.
Discover the modalities that are right for your clients. Gain a better understanding of the top modalities in massage practice with expert insight and a balanced, user-friendly approach! This current, consistently organized resource distills a wealth of information on 21 popular massage modalities into easy-to-read overviews detailing the essential principles behind each therapy.
* A companion DVD demonstrates proper techniques for 7 top modalities with over 100 minutes of detailed video footage.
Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage by Darien Pritchard
A recent survey in Australia showed that more than 40% of massage therapists suffer serious wrist and thumb problems. The most significant cause of early retirement from the massage profession is the cumulative strain on the body developed in the course of performing the work.
Written by noted teacher and trainer Darien Pritchard, this useful book explains those aspects of massage that can lead to these problems and shows how to apply pressure in ways that avoid them.