Just a note for future reference. I am reading an anatomy textbook for students specializing in physical training (future coach’s and highschool teachers) and loving it. It is simple, has great imagery without that many images (the section on the muscles that ordinarily tug the thigh inwards but can also help rotate it inwards or outwards makes such a vivid picture, and the one on changes in athletes’ diaphragms being more developed and better at keeping their abdominal organs from sliding and putting a load onto the chest cavity when the body is upside down just makes sense).
And I wouldn’t have expected the book to be so ‘serious’, and now I wonder, again, if I am missing out on cheap and solid sources by not looking into applied studies...
I think most of the LW audience doesn’t know the abbreviation. I would guess “physical therapy” but it took some thinking.
As I see the subject, anatomy research is extremely underfunded. Universities want to fund research that could produce results that they can resell to big pharma and big pharma has mostly no use for anatomy.
Physical therapy actually has a use for anatomy and therefore their textbooks cover it.
Just a note for future reference. I am reading an anatomy textbook for students specializing in physical training (future coach’s and highschool teachers) and loving it. It is simple, has great imagery without that many images (the section on the muscles that ordinarily tug the thigh inwards but can also help rotate it inwards or outwards makes such a vivid picture, and the one on changes in athletes’ diaphragms being more developed and better at keeping their abdominal organs from sliding and putting a load onto the chest cavity when the body is upside down just makes sense).
And I wouldn’t have expected the book to be so ‘serious’, and now I wonder, again, if I am missing out on cheap and solid sources by not looking into applied studies...
I think most of the LW audience doesn’t know the abbreviation. I would guess “physical therapy” but it took some thinking.
As I see the subject, anatomy research is extremely underfunded. Universities want to fund research that could produce results that they can resell to big pharma and big pharma has mostly no use for anatomy.
Physical therapy actually has a use for anatomy and therefore their textbooks cover it.
Sorry, I meant ‘Physical Training’ - will edit it now. Of course, your point still stands.
Edited to add: Gavin Francis’s ‘Adventures in Human Being’ is another great book on the subject.