This book utilizes the visual approach and illustrates the anatomy, physiology and mechanics of the joints by means of clear and simple diagrams and a minimum of text.

The Physiology of the Joints, Volume 3: The Trunk and the Vertebral Column, Volume 3

Medical Books

Kapandji MD, I. A.

Basic Sciences

Churchill/Livingstone

The Physiology of the Joints, Volume 1: Upper Limb, Volume 1

Allied Health Professions

This is part of an extremely successful trilogy which uses a visual approach to illustrate the anatomy, physiology and mechanics of the joints. It presents, in double page spreads, clear and simple diagrams that have the minimum of text.
<li>Volume in extermely successful triology </li>Visual approach: presented in double-page spreads <li>Takes account of the increasing importance of prosthesis </li>Includes new information gained by the use of the arthroscope

Physiology of the Joints: Lower Limb, Volume 2

This text provides the reader an understanding of the mechanics of the joints with the help of diagrams rather than text. The commentaries are short (on double page spreads); the quality, clarity and simplicity of the drawings and diagrams are such that they could be understood without any verbal explanation. The drawings are unusually clear: everything which could hinder understanding has been removed and one feels that the author has foreseen the difficulties which the student could encounter. Each time a problem arises it is explained by a diagram which, though simplified, is extremely clear.
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<li>New functional tests for the shoulder, the elbow and the hand</li>
<li>Explanation of why the forearm has two bones</li>
<li>A logical and mathematical explanation of the so called CODMANN Paradox</li>
<li>New conceptions of the physiology of the carpus</li>
<li>Clear explanation of notions as DISI and VISI for the pathology of the carpus</li>
<li>New cotation of the thumb opposition and counter-opposition, presently integrated in the International Evaluation</li>
<li>Fundamental notion of the complex grip-plus-action, very important for the evaluation of the function of the hand</li>
<li>Symbolic and affective value of the hand</li>
<li>A comprehensive board of the motor nerves of the upper limb</li>
<li>New test to detect an ulnar palsy at the forearm</li>
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The Physiology of the Joints, Volume 1: Upper Limb

This text provides the reader with a visual understanding of the mechanics of the joints. Concise commentaries are combined with clear and simple full colour drawings and diagrams.

The Physiology of the Joints, volume III

Now in its sixth edition, The Physiology of the Joints Volume Two - The Lower Limb is illustrated in full colour, rewritten and enriched with new text. Conceived and written over forty years ago, it has brought back to centre stage biomechanics, which previously was dismissed as anecdotal in works on human anatomy. As a result of this impetus every work on anatomy nowadays covers in depth the functional features of the locomotor apparatus; in short, biomechanics has become a science that cannot be ignored. This book will be a valuable text for manual therapists, physical therapists, massage therapists, and osteopaths interested in the biomechanics of the human body.
<li>A synoptic diagram showing the factors affecting the stability of the knee</li>
<li>Explanation of the presence of two bones in the leg, based on an understanding of the functional anatomy of the ankle</li>
<li>The idea of the universal joint as applicable to the ankle-hindfoot articular complex</li>
<li>The vital concept of viewing the leg as "compartments"</li>
<li>A new chapter on the physiology of walking</li>
<li>A synoptic table of the nerves of the lower limb</li>
<li>Appendix with updated mechanical models of three-dimensional diagrams that can be assembled, providing a teaching tool for student and teacher alike</li>

Physiology of the Joints: Volume 2 Lower Limb

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