Muscles: Testing and Function With Posture and Pain, ed 5 (with Primal Anatomy CD-ROM)

Abstract

The fifth edition of this classic text has had a makeover. Colorful headers top every page. Blocks of text are enhanced by colored titles and subtitles. Terms are bolded. Even the tables look brighter with colored grid lines. This fresh appearance has been aided by the extensive reorganizing of material started in the third edition, and continued in the fourth and, now, the fifth edition.Except for the first 2 chapters, “Fundamental Concepts” and “Posture,” the remaining 5 chapters are organized by body region: head and face; neck; trunk and respiratory muscles; upper extremity and shoulder girdle; and lower extremity. The material within the body region chapters now has the general order of innervations, joints, range of motion, muscle length tests, muscle strength tests, painful conditions, case studies, corrective exercises, and references. Many of the line drawings, photographs, and even blocks of text will be familiar to experienced Kendall users. With the consolidation of chapters and the reordering of contents in this edition, however, the material proceeds sequentially and concisely, as it never has before. The chapter structure, along with the subject line in the header on every page, also makes it easy to navigate through this edition.