[.ca] The Muscular System Manual: The Skeletal Muscles of the ... (ISBN 0323025234)

Excellent Resource for Musculoskeletal Information:
This book is comprehensive in nature, scrupulous in detail, and the product of an obvious passion for the wealth of information to be found in our musculoskeletal system. As a massage therapist and perpetual student of the human body, I am glad to add this book to my library. It is well organized which makes it easy to reference whether I know the muscle, the bony landmark, or the general anatomical area of the body. Having so much information about an individual muscle in one book makes it easy to enhance or refresh my existing knowledge. I have opened the book just to refresh my knowledge of what an individual muscle looks like and found the illustrations clear. I have used the cross reference to find other muscles that might be adding to an existing muscular problem in a client. I have refreshed my awareness of an individual muscle by using the easy to follow palpation information. And I have added to my knowledge of individual muscle actions when helping a client isolate a muscle's tightness. Every time I have opened the book I have not been overwhelmed by what I do not know but rather come away feeling smarter.

excellent book:
I bought this book after attending one of Dr. Muscolino's cadaver lab workshops. I highly recommend this book and, if you are thinking about a cadaver workshop, I recommend that as well. Dr. Muscolino is very knowledgeable, caring and sensitive.

Ideal reference guide of musculoskeletal anatomy.:
Dr. Joseph E. Muscolino truly compiled the ultimate Musculoskeletal system anatomy textbook. I esspicially found the Latin and Greek derivation section's to be very helpful in understanding the origins of the muscle names. This author's logic and approach is unmatched. Kudos to Dr. Joseph E. Muscolino!!!

Fantastic book for learning and understanding the muscles!:
It is nice to find a book dedicated to the muscular system. Although the graphics are simple (not photographic), the information and the lay out are great for learning and understanding of the muscles. The best pages in this book are those that lay out the muscular attachments of a region of the body. Highly recommended for anyone that works in any field where the muscles are the focus!

Complete, Clear, Clean and Concise:
How wonderfully refreshing it is to find a reference book that is complete, clean, clear and concise in its presentation. Too bad this text wasn't available when I was in massage therapy school. It takes all the dialog surrounding the essentials that bodyworkers need to know about the skeletal muscles and compartmentalizes them all into small, easy to digest bites - snapshots - of related, relevant information. No longer must I wade through paragraphs of lengthy descriptions and explanations to find the precise answer to my question. This text is the only one allowed to share the same shelf with - and has become the twin to - my other most used reference book, Frank Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. Both are indispensable to me. Bravo, and thank you, Dr. Muscolino!