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Manual of Structural Kinesiology with PowerWeb/OLC Bind-in Passcard, Fifteenth Edition |
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Overview
This trusted text provides a straightforward look at human anatomy and its relation to movement. Identifying specific muscles and muscle groups and describing exercises for strengthening and developing those muscles, it makes important information readily available through a logical presentation and a concise writing style.
New to This Edition
- A new chapter is devoted to neuromuscular fundamentals.
- New photos throughout improve clarity and enhance learning.
- New chapter-specific interactive animations on the text's Online Learning Center guide students as they explore the human body.
- The text's new Online Learning Center features animations, labeling activities, interactive quizzes, anatomy flashcards, and instructor resources.
- New muscle overview charts appear throughout.
- The text now addresses terminology, innervations, and actions, and includes illustrations of joint movements.
Features
- Includes worksheets featuring labeling exercises at the end of the text, as well as on the Online Learning Center. The worksheets are now perforated for easy removal.
- Discusses each muscle in relation to origin, insertion, actions, palpation, strengthening, and flexibility.
- Presents functions and other relevant facts about muscle groups and describes simple exercises for use in the development of specific muscles.
- Makes the material practical and useful with application, strengthening, and flexibility sections, as well as laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter.
Supplements
- Instructor's Resource CD-ROM with PowerPoint Imagebank to accompany Manual of Structural Kinesiology / 0-07-284288-1
The Image Presentation CD-ROM is an electronic library of visual resources. The CD-ROM comprises images from the text displayed in PowerPoint, which allows the user to view, sort, search, use, and print catalog images. It also includes a complete, ready-to-use PowerPoint presentation, which allows users to play chapter-specific slideshows.
- A&P Revealed CD #1- Skeletal/Muscular / 0-07-312323-4
- Online Learning Center for Manual of Structural Kinesiology / 0-07-255892-X
This new Online Learning Center includes palpation and muscle analysis animations, movies of planes of muscle movement, interactive quizzing animations and online worksheets. For instructors there will powerpoints and answer keys to the worksheets from the text.
Online Learning Center
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Foundations of Structural Kinesiology
2 Neuromuscular Fundamentals
3 Basic Biomechanical Factors and Concepts
4 The Shoulder Girdle
5 The Shoulder Joint
6 The Elbow and radioulnar Joints
7 The Wrist and Hand Joints
8 Muscular Analysis of Upper Extremity Exercises
9 The Hip Joint and Pelvic Girdle
10 The Knee Joint
11 The Ankle and Foot Joints
12 The Trunk and Spinal Column
13 Muscular Analysis of Trunk and Lower Extremity Exercises
Appendix
Worksheets
Glossary
Credits
Index
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