(12 reviews) Author: ISBN : 9780781759229 New from $55.38 Format: PDFCreated specifically for massage therapy students, the Third Edition of Anatomy & Physiology: The Massage Connection elucidates anatomy and physiology with clear, concise language complemented by an extraordinary multilayer art program. Organized to cover each body system and align with current massage therapy curricula, topics have been streamlined so that those areas critical for massage therapy—such as the musculoskeletal system—receive special coverage, whereas excessive detail in areas not relevant for massage is omitted. This edition also delivers a host of review activities in addition to a blockbuster ancillary package of online tools and complementary resources.
Anatomy & Physiology: The Massage Connection is just that—the link between the science of medicine and the art of massage as well as a bridge for students to a successful career in massage therapy.
- Series: LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series
- Hardcover: 592 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (March 2, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781759226
- ISBN-13: 978-0781759229
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 10.8 inches
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Anatomy & Physiology PDF
I was attracted to this book because it seemed specific to massage therapy. But there are many, many typos and a few careless mistakes of the golfer/tennis elbow sort mentioned in an instructor's review elsewhere. There is also a more serious matter of what I can only describe as seeming intent to bias the student with regard to her or his understanding of HIV/AIDS . The copy I have is the 2004 Second Edition.
On Page 528 is a box with the title "Food For Thought..." The information in it details, among other things, the large cost of treating a person with AIDS, the secondary infections that persons with AIDS may transfer to others, and the suggestion that because persons with AIDS use multiple antibiotics over a long time, the risk of microorganisms developing that are resistant to antibiotics is increased.
What is the purpose of singling out AIDS in this way? The costs of organ transplants and cancer treatments, which also involve suppressed immune systems, secondary infections, and antibiotics - are not highlighted in this way or indeed at all. As infectious agents, Clostridium difficile, MRSA, and a host of others, leave HIV far behind. Nor is the reader encouraged to ponder these in like manner. I was shocked to think that the author, a physician and an educator, would be anything but neutral in the presentation of her material.
Gerald Tortora's texts are, I think, better in every way. For one thing, they are co-authored; he is not out there on his own with only graduate students helping him. Tortora's "Anatomy and Physiology for the Manual Therapies", for example, is written with anatomist and massage therapist Andrew Kuntzman.
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