Anatomy Trains Summary

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The book that I chose to review is called Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers. The reason I chose this book is to; hopefully, help me with my Capstone project in the future. Anatomy Trains takes into account different aspects of the body that are not widely accepted, but are becoming the focus of my and other clinicians’ way of practice. Anatomy Trains and FMS look at the way the body moves to determine if there is any type of implications or discrepancies in an individual’s biomechanics. After reading Anatomy Trains, clinicians will have to elevate the body for muscle imbalance, loss of range of motion, or the way the body is moving during an injury to make sure during rehab exercises …show more content…
All of these lines tend to interact with each other. For example, the deep front line includes myofascial connections for leg all the way up to the jaw and skull. Problems that can assess in the deep front line include medially or laterally shifted knees, breathing with shoulder discomfort, or neck uprightness. This example gives am idea of how an injury can occur along this body line. The deep front line can cause problems at an intersecting line, such as the front functional line. Clinicians will evaluate an individual that has an injury in one line; while another injury might occur along the same line or an intersecting line if it is not properly treated. The clinician must treat above or below a injury to ensure a patient is properly and effectively treated. While using FMS, it will find that an individual has a type of muscle imbalance or weakness. Anatomy Trains can be used effectively in understanding how the body is working and understanding different discrepancies that an individual might