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Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More
Andrew Biel Andrew Biel, Boulder, CO 1997
297 pages
ISBN: 0-9658534-0-3 Price: $42.95
Finally, a book that does not just teach us about anatomy and kinesiology, but actually teaches how to find your way around the body with your hands (palpatory anatomy). We all know how important palpatory anatomy is to the practitioner and how vital it is to an in-depth orthopaedic examination. I think back to my undergraduate studies and remember learning about surface anatomy, while clocking only minimal hours of actual hands-on contact with another subject. We all know how to find the specific structures in the body, but who can truly differentiate the striations and contours in the muscle?
The first part of the book gives the reader an...