PDF Segmental Anatomy The Key to Mastering Acupuncture Neural Therapy and Manual Therapy 9780702050428 Medicine Health Science Books

Product details Hardcover 384 pages Publisher Urban & Fischer; 1 edition (April 19, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 0702050423

Segmental Anatomy The Key to Mastering Acupuncture Neural Therapy and Manual Therapy 9780702050428 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews

• This is the only book I have seen to go in such great depth to explain the underlying embryology and segmental relationships of anatomy. It reviews the formation of dermatomes, enterotomes, neurotomes, sclerotomes, and myotomes. The author also gives clinical pearls to relate the anatomy to useful assessments and treatment options. This book helps understand how we are wired, as to focus diagnosis and treatment to the proper regions of the body. The author has compiled hundreds of pages of illustrations complete with tables and references and presents her own clinical experience. Many of her references are hard-to-find, old, or written in multiple languages.
  
  She goes in-depth to explain the mechanisms between common referred pain syndromes (e.g. gallbladder - R shoulder) but even presents new ones never before described ones (e.g. prostate - great toe). She explains the connection between the extensor muscles and the sympathetic nervous system and flexor muscles and parasympathetics, based on our metameric evolution. She also talks about Head's zones, warning signs of internal disease (e.g. unilateral pupil dilation) and much more.
• Really good book
• I am devouring this book. As an acupuncturist and R.N., it marries my love for anatomy, physiology and neurology with acupuncture. It explains relationships between points and the distal areas they affect, and relationships of spinal nerves to dermatomes (skin), myotomes (muscle), enterotomies (viscera), neurotomes (nerve), which leads to further understanding the interactions of the integument to internal organs (i.e., why piercing the skin affects the organs). This is just scratching the surface of the contents of this book. It is an exciting read, with material I've never come across anywhere else.
• This textbook is for serious physicians, acupuncturists, and neural therapists that want to gain a greater appreciation for the inter-connectivity between the body's various dermatomes, myotomes, sclerotomes, enterotomes, and neurotomes. The author is a German physician and acupuncturist with decades of experience in both forms of medicine. The writing style is dry but very well presented and logically demonstrated thru the use of myriad charts and tables. European-derived Segmental Anatomy is well developed and backed by decades of research, despite the fact that most physicians are ignorant of it (in the USA) and its potential uses, which are conveyed passionately by the author. This book sheds light on why acupuncture and neural therapy can act on regions far distal from the point(s) of administration, and provides a foundation for understanding acupuncture in terms of Western science.
• Excellent book a must have for all manaul therapist and accupunturist.