Enhance manual therapy with a full understanding of the body's interconnected fascial networks! A worldwide bestseller, Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists and Movement Professionalsuses a unique whole-systems approach to demonstrate how patterns of pain or strain communicate through the myofascial webbing - giving rise to new treatment strategies for improving posture and movement function. This fifth edition is updated with the latest evidence-based research and includes a new, larger library of videos, including animations and webinars with the author. Written by practitioner and lecturer Thomas W. Myers, this text uses the metaphor of railway or train lines to show the effects that interconnecting myofascial and muscles have on the sites beyond their immediate locality.
Video List1. Laying the Railbed2. The Rules of the Road3. The Superficial Back Line4. The Superficial Front Line5. The Lateral Line6. The Spiral Line7. The Arm Lines8. The Functional Lines9. The Deep Front Line10. Anatomy Trains in TrainingWith contributions by James Earls and Karin Gurtner11. BodyReading® - Structural AnalysisAppendix1: Fascia and Biomechanical Regulation2: A Note on the Meridians of Latitude3: Structural Integration4: Myofascial Meridians and Asian Medicine5: Anatomy Trains in Quadrupeds - Initial investigationsBy Rikke Schultz, Tove Due, and Vibeke ElbrøndAnatomy Trains TermsBibliography
