The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns and Stretching

I am a new massage therapist. I purchased this book to help me to easily identify the muscles that I am working on. This shows you how to easily palpate each muscle. Step by step of where you fingers need to be and what action is needed to feel the contraction of the muscle. The pictures throughout the book are excellant. It is a book I browse through to refresh my memory. And to help me learn more about trigger point patterns. This came with 2 DVD's. I really liked the first one that showed how to palpate. I am a visual learner so between the pictures in the book and the DVD it really helped me to learn and remember the information. The second DVD bored me right away. It was more like a presentation type DVD that I have not watched for more than 5 minutes so I can't give an honest review about it.

Beautiful pictures for a quick review. This books is packed full of great information for anyone who manipulates the human body. It gives multiple views of each joint, and several different palpation angles for various muscles. It also includes the "minor" muscles missing from some other texts, as well as the tendon sheaths and other viscera that are often not listed in other texts.The flash cards were not as useful to me because I don't really use flashcards. However, they are detailed and well-drawn as well.

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.

What I like most about this Manual is its incredible usefulness. I used it in school 3 years ago to help me learn muscles & muscle actions. I keep it handy in my therapeutic massage business now to help clients understand how various stretches may benefit them. I use this book more than any other. Easy to follow and very, very helpful.

I bought this to study for massage therapy and it was an amazing resource. I am very visual and the pictures/ layout of this text book are perfect!! Far superior to any recommended by my college ... it should be a required text. Detailed explainations and full of useful information. The Author makes cross references to trigger points that could be coming from each muscle and also shows other contributing muscles too. Very smart guy!!

I was very pleased when I received my book. I had purchased a "slightly used" version of "Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual" at an excellent discount. When I received the package and opened it, I discovered the book was brand new. It looked like it had never been touched. Bravo!

Great reference book for your library. Joseph knows his stuff. Illustrations and explanations are simple and clear.

Great book & DVD. Clear, concise mapping of muscle and bones.