Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More (3rd Edition)
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Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More (3rd Edition)

3rd Edition

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Price
$9.85
Publisher
Books of Discovery
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0965853453
Dimensions
9 x 1.5 x 10.75 inches
Weight
2.5 pounds

Description

Review Trail Guide is an essential reference for any hands-on healer. --Thomas Myers, Rolfer, trainer of Structural Integration, author of Anatomy Trains-Myofascial Meridians 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 CoordinatorTo 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 About the Author Author: Andrew Biel is a licensed massage therapist. He has served on the faculties of Boulder College of Massage Therapy and Ashmead College, and taught Cadaver Studies for Bodyworkers at Bastyr Naturopathic University. Illustrator: Robin Dorn is an artist, illustrator and licensed massage practitioner. She specializes in bodywork illustration and exhibits her work on the West Coast and in France.

Features & Highlights

  • 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.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Great learning tool and locator; some illustrations misleading

The Trail Guide is a great book to use when learning about muscle and bony landmarks for locating and palpating the muscles. However, it can be confusing sometimes because the illustrations do not always match the text, particularly when dealing with specific numbered vertebrae. It would be a better tool if either the text became more generic (such as "upper lumbar" or "lower cervical") rather than specific numbered vertebrae when this may differ from person to person, or if the illustrations were updated to match the text if they are consistently on those numbered vertebrae for the vast majority of people. Otherwise, great step by step instructions and mostly the illustrations are extremely helpful.
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Great reference for palpation!

This book is extremely helpful for learning palpation techniques. Used it even in the second year of physical therapy school to refine palpation skills and refresh. It is also helpful in remembering what muscles have the same functions because it has charts grouped by action. Overall a great book at a great price!
3 people found this helpful
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Great reference book for LMT's

This is one of the better reference books I've purchased in my 40 years in the health care industry. It's well organized, has good graphics and gives accurate visuals for origins and insertions of muscles and how and where to palpate them. This would be a great addition to the library of anyone involved in therapeutic modalities.
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trail guide to the body

Excellent book, in better than I expected condiditon, thanks to previous owner, who took good care and few notes! Great price.
2 people found this helpful
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Far less expensive than the newer edition

This is adequate and far cheaper then the newer edition. I went to the library to add the new info and did great.
1 people found this helpful
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Great condition

Great book, great price. The fourth edition [[ASIN:0982663404 Trail Guide To The Body (4th Edition)]] is quite improved from this third, so if you can get that one (especially if the CD is included) do it! That said, I love this book(3rd ed)and have used it for years to help clients understand what was going on with their muscles. Also a terrific classroom resource and National exam study guide. I can not recommend this book enough. Andrew Biel and team are TERRIFIC! Thank you!!!
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A Tremendous Resource

A amazingly detailed map of the muscular and skeletal system. I don't use it for palpitation as intended, but as a resource of muscles, ligaments and joints. The sketches are incredibly detailed and easy to follow. I find myself thumbing back through the book whenever I need to understand more about a particular area. This book being ring-bound is a no-brainer! I love it.
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A must have

This is a must have book for any massage therapist. I bought this a year ago after I graduated from massage school. I used this book extensively to study muscular anatomy for my MBLEx exam. It was extremely useful. The book is very easy to understand and a great reference book. I still use it on a regular basis. I love that the book lists synergistic muscles together. It makes it much easier to look up. The spiral binding makes it very functional as a reference book. Overall, this book is very user friendly.
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I must have!!

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