Main description:

Revised and updated: a user-friendly illustrated guide to human anatomy, written for students and practitioners

This concise, pocket-sized guide is a full-color, on-the-go reference for students and practitioners of anatomy, massage, physical therapy, chiropractics, medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy. The Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, revised edition, interweaves text and images in a user-friendly and accessible way. Images have been critically assessed and modified from the previous edition for a highly reliable learning tool of bones, muscles, and nerves, plus all the other major body systems.

A final chapter by Thomas W. Myers outlines The Anatomy Trains myofascial meridians, which presents a map of how tracks of fascial fabric wind longitudinally through series of muscles. This new approach to structural patterning has far-reaching implications for effective movement training and manual therapy treatment.

Three appendices illustrate cutaneous nerve supply and dermatomes (Appendix 1), the major skeletal muscles, including detailed charts of the main muscles involved in movement (Appendix 2), and the remaining body systems (Appendix 3).

Contents:

Anatomical Terms; Tissues; Bones; Axial Skeleton; Appendicular Skeleton; Joints; Musculoskeletal System; Fascia and the Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians; Dermatomes and Sensory Nerve Supply; Muscles Involved in Movement; Organisation of the Human Body.