Anatomy and Human Movement: Structure and Function

Anatomy and Human Movement: Structure and Function, Eight Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for physiotherapy and occupational therapy students, providing a clear and detailed account of musculoskeletal structure and function with self-contained modules, multiple choice questions, illustrations, and electronic ancillaries. It is suitable for students of sport and exercise sciences, orthopaedic health, chiropody and podiatry, chiropractic and osteopathy, and complementary medicine, and practising clinicians wishing to refresh their knowledge of functional anatomy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 776 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2024
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Anatomy and Human Movement: Structure and Function, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for physiotherapy and occupational therapy students in the UK and internationally. It has been fully updated by Professor Emeritus Roger Soames to incorporate the latest evidence and practice, providing a clear and detailed account of musculoskeletal structure and function. The book includes self-contained modules, multiple choice questions, illustrations, and electronic ancillaries to support learning and teaching. It is suitable for students of sport and exercise sciences, orthopaedic health, chiropody and podiatry, chiropractic and osteopathy, and complementary medicine, as well as practising clinicians wishing to refresh their knowledge of functional anatomy. The book's self-contained modules allow users to study at their own pace and time, and the easy-to-navigate layout includes key concepts, summary boxes, and overviews to help retain information. Learning objectives for each subsection provide a framework for the student, and self-assessment questions support learning. Full-colour illustrations represent anatomy in 3D, and electronic ancillaries offer flexible learning outside the classroom, including a supplementary e-learning course and varied validation resources such as outcome measures, animations, videos, quizzes, activity analyses, and MCQ tests. The book has been fully revised and updated, with new self-test MCQs added.

Dimension: 276 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443113277
Edition number: 8 ed