| The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns and Stretching |  | Author: Joseph E. Muscolino DC
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 122,503
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/DVD
Pages: 544
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0323051715
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.822
EAN: 9780323051712
ASIN: 0323051715
Publication Date: December 3, 2008
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Product Description
With more than 1,000 vibrant, full-color illustrations and 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.
- Full-color musculoskeletal overlays depict muscles and bones exactly as they appear when palpated to help you locate tissues and landmarks with confidence.
- Comprehensive palpation coverage helps you easily identify muscle names, attachments, actions, palpation steps, and more.
- Video demonstrations on two companion DVDs demonstrate and reinforce correct muscle palpation.
- Joseph Muscolino's popular, concise writing style makes the science of palpation clear and accessible, encouraging critical thinking skills.
- Trigger points and referral patterns included for each muscle provide convenient access to guidelines for additional client assessment and treatment.
- Massage-specific treatment options guide you from palpation and assessment to practical treatment application.
- Stretching protocols and illustrations broaden your treatment capabilities.
- Comprehensive Body Mechanics chapter details 10 guidelines to help maximize efficiency during practice.
- A massage stroke atlas with information on draping techniques, massage strokes, and fundamental characteristics of touch helps you efficiently treat clients.
- Detailed explanations and full color drawings for bone and bony landmark palpation provide a comprehensive resource for bone palpation.
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review of a massage therapist December 17, 2009
Victoria
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always believed that a massage therapist who does not know anatomy is not a good massage therapist. This book, and I should say all the books written by Dr. Joseph Muscolino are excellent. Without reading or better studying Dr. Muscolino's books I would not have the skills that I have today.
I sincerely encourage all massage therapists to buy any book written by Joseph Muscolino. They are excellent.
good book will never let you down October 30, 2009
J. Chen (CA USA)
the first time I open this book was in the early morning of winter. cold weather and dark sky make me more focus on my reading. writer make it so easy to understand all the muscle and bone. I just realize if you want to memorize the muscle you have to understand the "bone" first.
just follow this book to organize your memory of every parts of your body
 Excellent book, poor video October 30, 2009
Marcel C. Fromond
Buy this for the book, but you'll be disappointed with the DVDs...
Excellent book.
All you need to know about palpation August 17, 2009
Keith Short (Gainesville, FL)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book combines All you need to know about: Muscle & Bone Palpation, Locating Trigger Points, and Stretching.
It shows assesment and treatment techniques, including stretching. Palpation of the bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. The muscle illustrations are great incorporating trigger points and referral points as well!
The book also contains 2 DVDs. The first DVD shows palpation on various muscles by Joe Muscolino.
Now, the second DVD is a special one, it contains presentations by some of the top names in massage therapy education, including Tom Myers, Leon Chaitow, Whitney Lowe, Ruth Werner, Benny Vaughn, Bob King, Gil Hedley, Sandy Fritz, Sandra Anderson, Judith Delany, George Kousaleos, Diana Thompson, and many more.
Each of them has a take on a muscle, how they approach it and showing their favourite techniques. This is the most unique DVD presentation on massage I have ever seen. It must take lots of effort and time to gather the top educators in this project.
The author Joe Muscolino is to be thanked and congratulated for putting this wonderful book & DVD.
a superior text... mult-purposeful... accurate... beautiful December 27, 2008
J. Sims (Island of Maui)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
OM massage/bodywork students, professionals and teachers
having used the old standard (TGB) to teach kinesiology, anatomy, pathology, deep tissue massage and neuromuscular therapy for years at multiple massage schools, i have been impatiently waiting for an affordable alternative. while this book lacks kinesiology fundamentals (planes, movements, etc.), it is vastly superior for learning muscles and how to specifically palapate muscles and bony landmarks. moreover, it includes theory (based on current research) on trigger points, trigger point locations, the pain referral patterns, initiating and perpetuating factors and a variety of other insightful comments on specific muscle trigger points.
this book does not replace Travell's advanced volumes, but it is much more approachable.
for the study of muscles and movement, it's incomplete, but if you can get by without the kinesiology fundamentals (as mentioned above), it does replace the old standard text (TGB) as it includes thousands of full color (not dull monochromatic) enhanced photographs and drawings, it is thoughtfully organized (not wandering hither thither and patched with blurbs here and there), includes appropriate (not misleading) palpation technique and includes accurate, current references (not using old, arcane, misleading or inaccurate terms). addtionally, muscolino includes stretches for each specific muscle, information on body mechanics, draping, and massage techniques. the Elsevier website provides further highly valuable resources for both students and teachers. finally, there are two DVDs with four hours of demonstrations.
the book can be bundled with flashcards The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns and Stretching - Text and Flashcards Package. muscolino also has a muscle and bone coloring book Musculoskeletal Anatomy Coloring Book.
the only improvement (other than providing a chapter on kinesology fundamentals) might be a spiral binding as the student/licensed practitioner will constantly be referring to it and wanting to keep it open while practicing.
thank you Dr. Muscolino (and the star-studded lineup on contributors)!
OM tat sat.
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