Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Angiography    3. Blood-vessels    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nervous system    7. Neurology - General    8. Neuroradiology    9. Radiography    10. Radiology    11. Surgery    12. Surgery - Neurosurgery    13. Surgery - Vascular    14. Vascular Surgery    15. Cardiovascular medicine    16. Cerebral    17. Medical / Radiology & Nuclear Medicine    18. Medical imaging    19. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    20. Neurosurgery    21. dangerous vessvessels    22. embryology    23. maxillofacial    24. spinal cord    25. vascularisation   

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Recommended from resident to resident
A wonderful book that presents a complex system in a very simplified format. I'm looking forward to a newer edition that would give further emphasis on peripheral nerve exam.
A great book with wonderful pictures
As a neurology doctor, I found (and still find) this book helpful in the cartoon illustrations that detail everything from the nerve roots to plexus to individual nerves that innervate the various muscles. osteopathy and neurology
My first introduction to Dr. Hoppenfeld's writing was through his book, Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities.I found it to be concise, well written and very informative as is this text.It is an excellent resource and since in osteopathy a major focus is on the skeletal system it is an excellent aid.Read more

Subjects:  1. Diagnosis    2. Diseases    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Neurology - General    5. Orthopedics    6. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    7. Spinal cord    8. Spinal nerves    9. Wounds and injuries    10. Medical / Orthopedics    11. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    12. Orthopaedics & fractures   

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Couldn't put it down!Great Book!
This book is actually the "textbook" for the pen and ink drawing class that I am taking.I bought it ahead of time and read it in 2 days!I had a hard time putting it down and now that I am finished I keep going back to it to discover the clever ways Mr. Gregory depicts life in the big city and abroad.What he has to say ranges from being dramatic to funny and interesting.He takes the every day things we take for granted and makes them into something worth taking a second look at.I am thinking of buying all of the books he writes.....This is good stuff!

From the heart
Wow! I really got a surprise when I started reading this book - it's very honest. When I received the book (along with 2 others on subject of keeping a journal) I was rather dismayed by the cover - thinking it was just another "cute" book - but, I was very pleasantly surprised. This small book is the most inspiring tome I've read yet on journaling. The author, Danny Gregory spreds his emotions and thoughts on the page - just like peanut butter on bread. Try it, you'll want more.

Truly Life-Changing Stuff
Combine this book with Danny's other gift to all of us, Creative License, and you might just change your life. You used to draw, of course you did. To paraphrase Danny's kid: "Did you forget?" Live in the moment, see the beauty in all things, slow down, and draw. (Or pick up some other art, even if it's gardening. All things creative are life-affirming.) Go for it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1960-    2. Artists, Architects, Photographers    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Gregory, Danny,    7. In art    8. New York (N.Y.)    9. Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Psychology    12. Specific Groups - General    13. United States - Northeast - Middle Atlantic (General)    14. Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers    15. Biography: general    16. Coping with personal problems    17. Individual artists    18. New York   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Medical / Nursing   

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Studying Made EASY
This book made studying the Nervous System In Anatomy and Physiology very easy, being that the nervous system is one of the hardest topics to learn.This sudy guide helped megain the knowledge thoroughly.The questions were thorough and covered all the areas of the nervous system ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Afferent pathways    2. Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurology - General    6. Neuroscience    7. Senses and sensation    8. Spinal cord    9. Human biology    10. Medical / Neuroscience    11. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    12. Neurosciences   

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Not much difference from older edition
I read both editions
Spinal Cord Injury: Functional Rehabilitation (2nd Edition)
I found this book is very helpful in providing information in a concise manner without too much detail. It is a great reference book for spinal cord injury information at your fingertips as well as a great resource for board exam preparation. For the therapist not working ina spinal cord injury setting but needs information of this nature at hand, perfect book. Also provides up to date information on wheelchair assessments. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Patients    5. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    6. Physical Therapy For Specific Groups    7. Physical therapy    8. Rehabilitation    9. Spinal cord    10. Wounds and injuries    11. Medical / General    12. Physiotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Atlases    3. Magnetic resonance imaging    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Radiology    7. Spinal cord    8. Spine    9. anatomy & histology    10. Medical / Surgery / General    11. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    12. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR / MRI)    13. Orthopaedics & fractures   

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Human tragedy:A lawyer with nobody to sue
When I first starting reading this book my frame of reference was Christopher Reeve's book "Still Me", about the struggles of facing quadriplegia after a tragic accident.I found Mr. Reeve's book inspiring in many ways and disheartening in other ways. Mr. Reeve was wealthy enough, and had multiple insurance and disability policies to fund a private clinic in his own home, with a full time staff of nurses, aides and therapists.In Mr. Galli's book, I was disheartened more than anything else.For a large part of the book he weighs the pros and cons of ending his son's life, not considering what his son would want to do. We're not talking about a brain dead person here, just how his son's new life of incapacity and dependence will impact his parents. Mr. Galli, in the irony of ironies, is an attorney, and is facing the prospect of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in costs caring for his son over his lifetime, and has nobody to sue.That seems to be a strong undercurrent in this book.Not just "Whose Life Is It Anyway?", but who pays for the continuance of this life in anyplace other than a lousy nursing home?This is really an issue for our society to deal with.I'm not sure if I want my taxes and health insurance costs to go up enough to cover paying $500,000. a year for every handicapped person who wants to remain at home to get all of the services that are required.And I was also very turned off by Mr. Galli's appeal for funds to pay for his son's care.Christopher Reeve solicited money for his foundation to do research and give out "quality of life" grants to paralyzed individuals, not for his personal use.Mr. Galli wants people to send in money to his son's trust fund to lighten the burden on himself.
Outstanding
This is a finely written memoir of a dreadful event -- a swimming accident that left the author's teenaged son paralyzed.The story takes us over the first days after the accident -- a time when the parents are trying to balance their son's options -- and the possibility of terminating life support.This is a very moving book, and I could not help but be profoundly impressed by the son, Jeffrey, along with his family and the network of supportive friends.I recommend this book without reservation.On another, perhaps less important note, I should mention that the author is also a very good writer.It is frequent in memoir books that I overlook style because of the content.But in this case, the content was very moving, as I said;the writing was very, very good. One last comment -- I cannot help but wonder if the negative reviewers finished the book.They might be surprised.

Sharing Experiences
When my son was also injured in a diving accident in 1991 just pior to his 29th birthday, one of the counselors talked with me about the variances in each level of injury... and the variances within each level.This book relates totally ... and likewise, not at all.Such injuries do encompass such huge differences and yet still create huge bonds amongst SCI families and their friends.In 1991, I didn't have the availability of all the resources that can now be found so easily on the web... this improvement in availability is an additional tool in helping us learn and in helping us share/teach; alongside the medical improvements that increase the quality of life for those in wheelchairs.The wheelchair is what people see; the reality is so much more.As a mother, I appreciated reading the reactions from the other side of the parenting role... a father's honesty and truth... I know it was not easily exposed. Different angles of perception; same levels of love.Thank you, Jeffrey, as your father wrote... for sacrificing your privacy so he could tell the story. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Death, Grief, Bereavement    5. Euthanasia    6. Family & Relationships    7. General    8. Parental Memoirs    9. Patients    10. Rehabilitation    11. Specific Groups - Special Needs    12. Spinal cord    13. Wounds and injuries   

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Fantastic.Review by former Physiology Fellow/Biochemist/Research Scientist
This is a fantastic book and a bargain for the price.The photography is stunning.The choice of anatomical views and overall organization is superb.There is also a lot of histology content and it is well done.The same is true for the diagrams.
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Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Neurology - General    5. Neuroscience    6. Medical / Anatomy    7. Medicine   

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High quality anatomy text
Basic and Clinical Anatomy of the Spine, Spinal Cord, and ANS is an excellent text for both students and clinicians that specialize in the spine. As a chiropractic student, I used the first edition for my spinal anatomy class and as a National Chiropractic Board Exam review and found it to be extremely helpful.
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Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Automatic nervous system    3. Chiropractic    4. Clinical Chemistry    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Spinal cord    8. Spine    9. Medical / Chiropractic    10. Physiotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Patients    5. Physical Therapy    6. Rehabilitation    7. Rehabilitation Therapy    8. Spinal cord    9. Wounds and injuries    10. Medical / Allied Health Services / Physical Therapy    11. Neurosurgery    12. Physiotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Brain    2. Health/Fitness    3. Imaging    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurological Imaging    6. Neurology - General    7. Neuroradiography    8. Radiology    9. Spinal cord    10. methods    11. Anatomy    12. Medical imaging    13. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

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A practical manual
Men with spinal cord injuries have questions on sexuality and self-worth, but most studies on the topic narrow the focus to the concern of fertility. Robert Baer has had years of experience working in community mental health and private rehabilitation, presenting seminars on sexuality and disabilities: Is Fred Dead? A Manual On Sexuality For Men With Spinal Cord Injuries is a practical manual on sexuality for men with spinal cord injuries which addresses issues ranging from dating and understanding the sexual response cycle to sex alternatives.
An excellant resource
Dr. Baer has covered all the esential topics that a male with a SCI would want to know: from detailed anatomic drawings to illustrate positions, to relationship issues (e.g., how to handle cathers in an intimate situation) and how to handle the interpersonal issues. This is a thoughtful, rigorous book that is educational, not purient, and written from first-hand experience. For both patients and their loved ones. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    3. Reproductive Medicine & Technology   

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Good for an already healthy back
I really enjoyed this CD, but I think it's important to note that it's called "Spinal Strengthening," not "Spinal Repair." It isn't appropriate for someone who is currently injured. Your back needs to be pretty strong & healthy to do this practice. It's actually a good all-around practice, and the instructor gives you plenty of time to get into the asanas and feel the benefits. That's what I like about Bryan Kest. A lot of other teachers who do this type of practice move too fast and have the same old asanas. He puts a different spin on it, and I enjoy it.

Great workout
This is a great yoga workout.The CD and book are easy to follow along with.The routine is challenging but fun. It's an hour and a half long, but goes by extremely fast and really strengthens your back muscles.

Excellent overall workout for core muscles
I really like this Kest routine probably more than any other that I do (and I've done most of them).It is a very even split between stretching/relaxing and working hard.The flow of the routine seems to make a lot of sense to the mind and body as well.I have to admit that if I were stranded on an island with only one yoga routine, this would be the one I would pick.
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Subjects:  1. Exercises    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health & Fitness / Exercise    4. Health & Fitness / Yoga    5. Spinal cord    6. Yoga   

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outdated
Of interest; the book's authors are throat and mouth specialists.Also, they are not aware that their institution ( Johns Hopkins) is making great strides in SCI research.that's a invaluable contact they neglected to study.Bold predictions are made claiming that SCI will not be cured within several decades, 100 years etc.Yet they tell the reader to move on with your life and still have hope for SCI therapies.Here's the problem- they do the worst thing imaginable, they condescend to the patient, providing false hope, if they clain SCI treatments (valid ones) are hundreds years away, then why should patients stay hopeful if it will not help them or anybody with a SCI in our lifetimes?These are serious claims from authors whose credentials do not include spinal cord injury.

Finally, a real life approach!
Since my SCI in May of 1999 we have accumulated a pile of books dealing with various aspects of SCI.At 1/10th the price, this book is many times better than any of the others.Their down to earth approach leads you from the point of injury until the day you make the transition from patient to the new you.Outstanding! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    3. General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Paraplegia    7. Physical Impairments    8. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    9. Popular works    10. Psychological aspects    11. Spinal cord    12. Wounds and injuries    13. Coping with disability    14. Nature / Natural Resources    15. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Complications    2. Fractures    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Orthopedics    6. Osteoporosis    7. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    8. Spinal cord compression    9. Spine   

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Important basic resource
This book is an important basic resource for people with SCI and the people who love them.While the material is heavily slanted to male sexuality issues after SCI, some female issues are also addressed.Theformat is designed in questions and answers, which allows the reader toskip around and read whatever topics they are interested in, or ready todeal with.Read more

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health - General    3. Health/Fitness    4. Healthy Living    5. Love / Sex / Marriage    6. Miscellanea    7. Patients    8. Sex instruction for people with disabilities    9. Sexual behavior    10. Sexuality    11. Spinal cord    12. Wounds and injuries    13. Gender studies    14. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    15. Reproductive medicine   

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best book available
As a first year neuroscience graduate student I had to hack through Martin's neuroanatomy textbook.Not until a month before my comprehensive exam did I discover this book - my girlfriend found a copy out on the sidewalk, left behind by a departing medical student probably - filled with hasty underlines and unintelligible scribbles in bic pen.But, it was a godsend.The quality of this text is immediately apparent to anyone who has tried to learn from it.If you begin from ignorance, use this book!If you already know everything go ahead and show off to yourself that you can understand Martin or for that matter a straight atlas of brain sections with no text at all!But for those who need concepts, themes, integrative explanations, this books is by far the best thing available. Great resource if you can find it
Though a review is almost unecessary for the droves of med students trying to get a copy as a required text, Heimer is a great way to get into neuroanatomy, even for the budding biologist.The first half of the bookdescribes dissections of a human brain in exquisite detail (multiple cutssuggested), though you'll probably have trouble finding a human brain(legally) to dissect unless you are one of the aforementioned med students. The latter half goes through the different brain systems/structures,paying attention to function tracts and anatomical correlates of behavior. Labeled MRI's are included in the new edition.Great for visualizing a 3Dmap of the brain, almost bettter than the real thing.Read more

Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Brain    3. Central Nervous System    4. Health/Fitness    5. Human Central Nervous System Function    6. Human dissection    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Neurology - General    10. Neuroscience    11. Spinal cord    12. Medical / Neuroscience    13. Neuroanatomy   

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An excellent book!!!
It helps me to understand and have compassion for people with disability and illness. Going into the health profession field, this a great book for anyone to understand family members, friends, or anyone who have disability.An excellent book and I would recommend it for anyone, not just students in anthropology.

Hearing the Body
Bob became paraplegiac at a late age, after having enjoyed a long, brilliant career as a professor at Columbia and an anthropologist who, with his anthropologist wife Yolanda, lived among Amazonian Indians and Saharan camel nomads. He was too clever to be overwhelmed with self-pity. This book was written from the perspective that he loved most: what you'd think is true is probably just the opposite. We expect paralyzed people to get better, like other "sick" patients, but the problem is, they don't: they're damaged selves. Hey--just like everybody else. We all have to come to terms with life's damages and our isolation and loneliness as we attempt to cope with it. Who would ever have thought it possible--we can all learn something compelling about our normal selves, viewing life from the wheelchair! Ironically (and this is the kind of twist that styles Murphy's ideas) the disabled are a mirror for the rest of us: "The paralytic is, quite literally, a prisoner of the flesh, but most humans are convicts of sorts. We live within walls of our own making, staring out at life through bars thrown up by culture and annealed by our fears. . . .[that] induces a mental paralysis, a stilling of thought." Murphy has never sold his soul to an illusion: he speaks candidly as a participant observer of his own encounter with symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and transformation. Always the fox, he transcends the smoke screen that our cultural prejudices force upon us, and hears his own body and its message with astounding clarity and patience. This is a book that students read eagerly, in both anthropology and sociology classes, because its message is provocative, and its ethnography is true. It teaches us all to listen to the sound of our own struggles with personal identity and mortality, and to smile with the knowledge that we are not alone.

Disibility means reliance on others
Ten years ago since the American Disabilities Act went into effect, the disabled still feel that they are isolated from the real world.Former professor of anthropology at Columbia University Robert F. Murphy examinesfrom his personal perspective the life of a disabled person in a worldwhere he was independent and zealous of life. The reader will discover whatit is like for a disabled person to battle besides the inability to carryout everyday function we take for granted.The Body Silent is unlike otherbooks written by the disable.The Body Silent is an excellent book full ofprose and not journal entries of how fortunate the non-disabled really are.This book (recommended to me by anthropologist Dr. James Trostle) willchange your perspective and outlook on how it is like to grow up again andlearning how to walk, one step at a time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Paralysis    4. Patients    5. Psychological aspects    6. Quadriplegics    7. Spinal cord    8. Tumors    9. United States    10. Coping with disability    11. Disability: social aspects