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(Meghan) - Hi! How are you? (Rachel) - How you doing? (M) - Oooh we're rolling.
(R) - More books this week. (M) - So welcome to this episode of JING TV! we're going (R) - This
time we've got anatomy books. Meg always introduces JING TV! Welcome to this episode of JING TV!
This week we're going to look at some anatomy books, that we've grabbed from the office.
(R) - So anatomy is really important. You've got to know it. It's your road map to the
body and actually in Jing we look at anatomy from, not just from a Western view around
muscles and bones and fascia but also from an Eastern point of view, so, you know, Oriental
anatomy and physiology around the energy channels and the meridians, right? So we're going to
show you a few different anatomy books. This, we think every massage therapist should have,
without a doubt. Andrew Biel and whoever the illustrator is, Robin somebody, I'm not sure,
anyway they done a massive service to the massage community with this book. It not only
gives you, obviously really good anatomy in 'The Trail Guide' but more importantly how
to palpate things. (M) - oh great! (R) - Exactly how to palpate. We actually run a long musculoskeletal
anatomy course at Jing, over 9 months and before we ran it I was like "oh my god it's going
to take me months to write and find all the resources" and then I looked at 'The Trail
Guide' and I was like "oh god it's got everything I need" and actually if you're a teacher out
there, there's also a whole load of teaching resources as well, multiple choice quizzes
(M) - Well there's a whole student guide that you can also purchase that's less money, than
this one, and they work together and it's really good for any student. So teachers can
recommend it to their students but also just people who wanna learn their anatomy, so it
has lots of self quizzes and bits and pieces so you can know the muscles. (R) - Yeah.
(M) - The other thing is Ta Da (R) - The new additions got a DVD. Again these editions are improved
all the time. I think the first one didn't even have a ring binder thing, which we still
have. We've got all these first editions, maybe they'll be worth loads of money one
day! (M) - I have to say, for those out there, kind of getting apps, you know loads of apps
around anatomy, they're absolutely fantastic but there's something different about having
a book that you can use as a resource and also using it in your treatment room to show
people muscles, because people do not know about the body. Nobody educated us in school
about our muscles and our bones, so when people are in pain, they're really surprised that
muscles are actually connected, you know, so it's really good. (R) - This DVD shows
you palpation as well, which is pretty cool. (M)- Yeah, yeah. (R) - I guess that's him,
Andrew, he looks nice doesn't he? (M)- Yeah. Let's find out who the illustrator is.
(R) - You'd wanna go out for a drink with Andrew. (M) - Alright, you find out who the illustrator
is and I'll talk about 'The Web That Has No Weaver' because we have to tell about him.
(The illustrator is Robin Dorn, LMP). (R) - OK. (M) - A second book that we recommend
for anatomy is an Eastern book, this one a first edition, very battered. 'The Web That
Has No Weaver' and this book is a different kind of form of reading, it's almost like,
a story. I really think it gives a great feel of what traditional Chinese medicine is about
and how you can integrate it with your Western work. It gives a great illustration of some
of the different meridians, very, very simple and actually how to diagnose, so that for
instance is the liver meridian. But it's easy to read and I think with a lot of traditional
Chinese or Asian texts they become very complicated, because it is a very complex subject matter
and when we teach it we often say "no matter how much time we have with you we can only
teach you the very tip of a massive iceberg because more than any other discipline, Eastern
disciplines take more than one lifetime to master." So, you know this is just dipping
into something, but it's something that we really recommend and also it has some great
appendix with different charts. It really stimulates your mind and how to think about
the body in a very different format that your straight up anatomy. (R) - Yeah. This is another
favourite of mine, the source, 'Gray's Anatomy' (M) - Oh it's beautiful. (R) - Not the TV
series, but the book. So however hundreds of years, this was the 100th year edition,
and god knows how old this is. I picked this up from a second hand bookshop and it's a
lovely addition, because it's in colour, but you can, you know, pick 'Gray's Anatomy' up
really cheaply in loads of places. (M) - The Strand in New York is always a great source
for these kinds of books. (R) - Yeah. You know, the reason I love 'Gray's Anatomy' is
you've got great illustrations like these, that show where all the attachment points
for the muscles are. Obviously it's not just looking at the muscles, it also talks about
the fascia, fascial continuities, and there's great (M) - I didn't know that. So even in
'Gray's Anatomy' they're talking about fascial continuity. That's great. (R) - Yeah it talks
about the fascia, where the fascia's coming from, all those types of things. And these
great, kind of, classic illustrations (M) - They're beautiful (R) - that we're so used
to seeing, but they're just amazing aren't they? (M) - But I think again, if I can make
another plug for books there's something nice about the weight and beauty of them that kind
of gets lost in our search for questions on Google, or the computer, so it's really great
to have it as also a beautiful gift I think in your clinic spaces. (R) - Also I believe
it's true, but please do correct me if I'm wrong, but because these books are so old
they are actually out of copyright, so if you're teaching you can actually use those
illustrations royalty free, that's a great gift that Gray has passed down through the
ages. So get yourselves a copy of 'Gray's Anatomy'. To finish, if you're interested
in the anatomy of fascia we recommend Tom Myers book 'Anatomy Trains'. Tom Myers is
a really great, charismatic guy whose really brought our knowledge of fascia more into
the main stream, so thanks for that Tom. This is really about how the fascia of the body
fits together in what Tom calls the anatomy trains, you've got lots of different chapters,
great illustrations there. So really that's another map of the body, not just the muscular
map of the body but actually how the fascia, you know, one theory certainly of how, there
are other theories out there, here's somebody else who came up with a theory of how the
fascia fits together. We definitely recommend that and there is (M) - A DVD. (R) - It also
has a nice DVD with some good bits and pieces. (M) - And I'd say, just as a point of reference,
if you chose to do a bit of studying around 'Anatomy Trains' pick up also a very, very
simple, almost coffee table book of the traditional Chinese meridians and put it side by side,
because there's some terribly uninformed Chinese meridian books (R) - He goes into that at
the end as well (M) - Does he? (R) - Yeah, yeah, in this edition. Again in the first
edition we didn't see too much correspondences between Eastern and Western, but in this one
(M) - The new one, again the newer editions they get me every time (R) - there's actually,
myofascial meridians and Oriental medicine, yeah (M) - Great, good. (R) - Not only does
he talk about the Chinese meridian lines, but also the Sen lines from Thai massage which
I think we also picked up that there was correspondences. So great book, you know Tom's a good guy and
yeah, nice book. Thank you