Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists

Why was this NOT basic to my medical education- and to the education of every massage therapist, physical therapist, chiropractor, naturopath and osteopath? Knowing this is knowing how to DO NO HARM! We started learning anatomy by learning the bones! That was backwards! We should have learned about fascia and the function of connective tissue first, then muscles and THEN bones. Fascia gives birth to bones and is the beginning of the structure we have credited the bones for all along! This body of work is amazing and has changed how I view the body!

If you are studying Myofascial Release, there are some great diagrams in this book to help you better understand the anatomy. This book has a lot of science, anatomy, theory, and structural analysis. There are also resources online that I have not yet accessed, but so far there are not any details on how to apply the Myofascial Release techniques. If you want to better understand the theory and concepts, then this is the book for you. This book makes a great compliment to massage therapy, movement therapy, and other body-centric modalities.

Tom Myers has made myofascial trains clearly understandable, and enigmatic pains become clear. I gave my first copy of this book to my chiropractor. The CD included shows Tom demonstrating some techniques for releasing fascia, and I shared this with my massage therapists to release a nearly frozen shoulder painlessly. Any body worker can benefit from learning techniques and concepts put forth in this book--especially tensegrity, the competing forces which hold us together. If you suffer from chronic musculoskeletal pain, you may be able to understand why from this book--then find a body worker to share it with. Warning-- there are images of cadavers dissected in order to view the fascia. However, there are also drawings so you CAN learn without having to look at the real photos. It is a scientific and medical book, that has been indispensable to me for understanding the role fascia plays in my complex pains and dysfunction related to congenital scoliosis, a tethered cord, and the untethering in my 50s.

The ideas presented in Anatomy Trains are illuminating and experientially descriptive. I found it to be very helpful both personally (because of a chronic neck issue) and professionally as a Dance/Movement Therapist and Expressive Movement Specialist.
I appreciate the way that Tom has presented this material so that both patients and professionals alike can begin to access what are new ways of thinking about complex concepts of body mechanics and movement. He is integrating many vectors of thought on this subject and each edition unfolds more!

Many thanks and much gratitude to Tom Myers for this book. I bought the first edition years ago, and it was time to get the updated version.
This book provides a wealth of information. By having a more comprehensive understanding of our body as a tensegrity structure, and the importance of fascia in soft tissue evaluations, I am more able to discern the real cause of my client's problems with pain or other dysfunctions, so we are can address the cause rather than the symptoms.

Myer's Anatomy trains give a scope beyond what was taught in physiotherapy school. Through reading this book I began to see beyond individual muscle and I now few movement as in facial units. It's a good read, however, to fully grasp and practice what is said further courses in the anatomy trains concept would be necessary.

Breakthrough look at how the body communicates, how it adapts short and long term to stress. Totally new view of a body system that has important ramifications for everyday health as well as rehabilitation. Well illustrated and articulate. Highly recommend for anyone in the health professions, bodywork etc.

A fresh, progressive and necessary perspective on anatomy. Beautiful imagery. Reaching past the view of the human body as a collection of pullies and levers, this book illustrates in so many ways, the functional relationships between areas of the body in the context of functional movement. A great way to unify bodyworkers, trainers, eastern and western medical communities. A must-have for rolfers, craniosacral therapists, PTs, PIlates/Yoga instructors, fitness trainers, etc.

If you are serious about your client's health and you are a Chiropractor, Physical Therapist, or bodyworker, this will remove some of the veil and open your mind to the concept and evidence the systemic Interconnectivity, particularly in the myofascial system.

If blows my mind to see the ignorance about this subject amoung the therapists working with professional sports organizations. This will put you way ahead of the this curve.

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I've been doing bodywork for decades and work with Fascia, creating Thixotropy on all my clients. This book is excellent, providing refreshing views on a complicated subject.
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Don't Fix It, "Thix" It.

Choo choo, anatomy coming through. Awesome book, comes with DVD that you can use as a Frisbee or pop it in to your laptop to learn a thing or two about a thing or two.

This book should be approaching legendary status now since it has been providing a unique approach for both clinicians and fitness professionals on how to approach the body. Before the era in which this book was written, Anatomy was basically taught as, "Your shin bones connected to your knee bone..." aka as segments that merge at one point. This book makes the point that everything is connected to everything and when approaching the body to either train it or make it functional or pain free you need to take a holistic approach.

The Chinese medicine practitioners were basically all like "Duh, we've been doing this for thousands of years."

My son just got his license for massage therapy and had posted this on his wish list. So, of course I had to get it for his Christmas. I've seen him reading it, studying it; he's getting ready to start his nurse's training in May. He says it will be extremely helpful.

The original book was top notch on this topic and at the time I thought it lucid and very interesting as compared to other Anatomy books out there.
BUT this new edition is really wonderful. I sold my old one and bought this one and it was totally worth the doing.

I am a Pilates/Yoga Instructor & Personal trainer.
Wish I read this book many years ago. It is a great explanation of musculature, connections, problems that can arise out of misalignment of joints and muscle/fascia tightness. GREAT book to read. Highly endorse it.

This book was used in a Functional Anatomy and Physiology class I took recently at Alive & Well! School of Conscious Bodywork. I was amazed at how Thomas Myers' has been able to lay out the "webbing" of related muscles in the body and to see that everything really is connected through this fascial web. As a massage practitioner, it makes my job that much easier to understand where someone might be experiencing pain from a tightness in a whole different part of the body and give them relief. Highly recommended read and reference manual for anyone doing bodywork.