Muscle anatomy textbook

[Dan Robbins]

Hi All,

I am looking for a good text book on muscle anatomy - particularly listing muscles and their type/structure e.g. pennate, fusiform, parrallel etc.

All recommendations appreciated.

Thanks
Dan

[Rita M. Patterson]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi All,

I am looking for a good text book on muscle anatomy - particularly listing muscles and their type/structure e.g. pennate, fusiform, parrallel etc.

All recommendations appreciated.

Thanks
Dan

Check out the Osteopathic book lists. Our manipulative medicine department uses "Thieme Atlas of Anatomy, General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System". It is fantastic.

[Kate Stafford]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi All,

I am looking for a good text book on muscle anatomy - particularly listing muscles and their type/structure e.g. pennate, fusiform, parrallel etc.

All recommendations appreciated.

Thanks
Dan

Hello Dan,
In Physical Therapy School we used this text book "Hollinshead's Functional Anatomy of the Limbs and Back" (http://www.amazon.com/Hollinsheads-F.../dp/0721656560) along with an atlas and I really liked it. It includes origins, insertions, innervations and actions of the major skeletal muscle groups, and is much more manageable as a quick reference.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Kate Stafford

[Dan Robbins]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies, both books look very interesting and good general resources. However, while they both describe the different types of fibre orientations found in the body, when detailing individual muscles they do not state what the fibre orientation is.

I find some textbooks provide an image allowing readers to infer the orientation but to date I have not found a text book which explicitly states each muscle fibre orientation.

Dan

[Angelica Ramirez]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hello Dan,

If you really need information about fibre length, pennation, and PCSA, you can visit a web wrote by Scott Delp. There you can find a data set provides that parameters needed to develop a computer model of the human lower limb. It is based on a model developed at the VA Rehabilitation R&D Center in Palo Alto California from 1987-199.

http://isbweb.org/data/delp/index.html

I hope it will be useful
Best regards,

Angélica Ramírez

[Bill Sellers]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi Dan,

For the extra technical detail I suggest you have a look at :

Pierrynowski, M. R. 1995 Analytical representation of muscle line of action and geometry. In Three-dimensional analysis of human movement (ed. P. Allard, I. A. F. Stokes & J. P. Blanch), pp. 215–256. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetic Publishers.

It has a set of tables with all the details you need. I've got the lower limb values in a spreadsheet I can send you if you like - to check whether this is what you want before a trip to the library!

Cheers
Bill

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Dr. Bill Sellers
The University of Manchester
Web site http://www.animalsimulation.org

[Dan Robbins]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi,

Angélica - the website has a table with all the info I need for now, thats great thank you!

Bill, thanks for the advice, I will get a copy of the book and see if there is any extra info that can be of use.

[Samuel R Ward]

Re: Muscle anatomy textbook

Hi Dan-

If you're looking for a summary, I would suggest the tables in chapter 1 of Lieber's books Skeletal Muscle Structure, Function, and Plasticity. There are also a bunch of good papers out there wiith the same data summarized (Wickiewicz, 1983; Brand 1990, Delp- multiple, Agur- multiple, Ward- multiple, and Lieber- multiple). If you send me an email, I can send you some e-reprints.

Sam Ward
srward@ucsd.edu