Muahahahahahaha!
Mar. 23rd, 2004 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesLadies and gentlemen, I'm doing the happy snoopy dance today.
In class, someone passed around a copy of Travell's volume of upper body trigger points. (For those who don't know, Janet Travell was President Kennedy's personal physician. Her extremely well researched body of work on musculoskeletal trigger points is a classic, and using massage to relieve people's trigger points can really help them out. Trigger points can sneakily produce pain and weakness that shows up very far away from the actual trigger point. I covet both volumes of her work, but street price for them is $500 each, last I checked. I can wait.)
In any case, I opened Travell and looked at it, and all the anatomy I'm taking paid off: I looked at the diagrams and they all seemed crystal clear and obvious, and I knew intimately the muscles they depicted. That wasn't true the last time I looked at it.
In class, someone passed around a copy of Travell's volume of upper body trigger points. (For those who don't know, Janet Travell was President Kennedy's personal physician. Her extremely well researched body of work on musculoskeletal trigger points is a classic, and using massage to relieve people's trigger points can really help them out. Trigger points can sneakily produce pain and weakness that shows up very far away from the actual trigger point. I covet both volumes of her work, but street price for them is $500 each, last I checked. I can wait.)
In any case, I opened Travell and looked at it, and all the anatomy I'm taking paid off: I looked at the diagrams and they all seemed crystal clear and obvious, and I knew intimately the muscles they depicted. That wasn't true the last time I looked at it.
