Ultra-cool Book - Anatomy of Movement

May 24, 2001

I just got a really cool book: Anatomy of

Movement, by Blandine Calais-Germain 1993 Eastland Press

289 pages $28.50 Amazon:

some info from the back cover: "Anatomy of

Movement is a dynamic, integrated approach to the sudy of

the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system

and their relationship to the movements of the human

body. In clear and concise text illustrated with more

than a thousand graphic drawings, the author takes the

reader on a lively tour of the muscles, bones, ligaments

and joints of the arms, legs and trunk. The focus

throughout the book is on anatomy not for its own sake but

in its functional relationship to the actual

movements of the body in dance, exercise and other physical

disciplines." The drawings are similar to those found in Stone's

Atlas of Skeletal Muscles, where each muscle is

isolated. But there are lots more drawings here detailing

bones, joints,ligaments and tons of info on how the

muscles move the bones, how the joints work. I

found it at Borders. It seems to be a popular enough

book that you may be able to find it in large

bookstores. There is a companion book called Anatomy of

Movement, Exercises, which I have not seen.

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