Trail Guide to The Body Textbook (3rd Edition)

This acclaimed book delivers information for learning the muscular and skeletal systems in a beautifully illustrated, user-friendly way. It makes learning the necessary bodywork skills interesting, memorable and easy.

The textbook contains Synergists: Muscles Working Together, 75 new illustrations showing the muscles that perform a movement "in action". There are 40 new illustrations showing ligaments and deeper structures of the joints. Readers are provided with palpation information for 10 muscles new to Trail Guide. Also included is basic information for 25 additional muscles, most of which are unpalpable but fill out a reader's knowledge and understanding. The textbook is supplemented with 200 revised 2nd Edition illustrations. There is also a Palpatory Journal Page - encouraging readers to create their own "palpation diary" based on their hands-on experiences. With 1,100 illustrations covering more than 125 muscles, 206 bones, 30 ligaments and 110 bony landmarks, this text provides an invaluable map of the body.