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Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts | 
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| Author: Marc Tedeschi
Publisher: Weatherhill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 73829
Media: Paperback
Edition: Full Color
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0834804433
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.892
EAN: 9780834804432
ASIN: 0834804433
Publication Date: April 4, 2000
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Product Description
This unique book will familiarize healing practitioners and martial artists with basic concepts of the human body, as defined by both Western and Eastern medical traditions, allowing those engaged in healing and martial arts to develop a more complete, holistic, and scientifically forward-looking understanding of the body. Overviews of philosophical and conceptual underpinnings are followed by detailed drawings and diagrams of the body's internal systems, as seen by both traditions. Written in a clear and concise style, this beautiful and informative book presents information previously unavailable in any single text, making it an essential work for students, healing professionals, and martial artists. This lavishly illustrated book includes: Over 147 color drawings and 54 duotone photographs
An easy-to-understand overview of Western anatomical concepts
A detailed overview of Eastern medical principles, including information previously available only in specialized, costly medical texts
A comprehensive listing of Oriental pressure points and meridians in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, cross-referenced to nerves, blood vessels, and other anatomical landmarks
Twenty essential self-massage and revival techniques
Detailed principles of pressure point fighting, as used in traditional Asian martial arts
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Good book, title is off September 7, 2008
A very extensive book on meridians and pressure points. The title is not reflective of the content, but a very good book on accupressure points. A good book for your accupressure library but lacks in martial art healing principals.
 Top notch and invaluable August 14, 2008
I highly recommend this book to any Martial Artist. It is easy to read, well organized, and looks phenomenal. This book is invaluable to any student of kysho- or goshin-jutsu.
Excellent for the purpose July 11, 2008
Tedeschi has done a masterful job of concisely describing a very complex subject in a mere 148 pages. I was looking for a book to map meridian points to western anatomical points and his book fills the bill excellently. As a technical writer, I appreciate the way he lays out an overview before launching into detail. It's always easy to tell where you are in the grand scheme of the book.
The book itself is well put together and I expect to get good service out of it. High quality paper, appropriate page size for the large charts, good use of text columns, side heads, and clear charts. He has a section with the Chinese glyphs; tables have acupoint names in English and romanized Chinese, Korean, & Japanese.
The sections on healing and martial applications are overviews and if that is your interest, this book only points the way. It serves as a firm foundation for those interested in all Asian arts releted to meridians: acupuncture, acupressure, massage, dim mak, etc.
Not misleading at all... May 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is hands down the best reference book I've found for Eastern energetic theory that's not a straight up acupuncture school text. The title has been called misleading...considering that it's called "Essential ANATOMY..." I think it's pretty straightforward. It is an excellent resource for why certain pressure points work and their local Eastern and Western anatomy. It has excellent comparisons between Eastern and Western thought and theory. It is not a book of martial arts techniques. Tedeschi has plenty of those, and this one is a cross-reference, not a direct technical manual. So if you're at all interested in "meta-martial arts", this book is amazing; if you're looking to actively learn new strikes or blocks or anything like that, better go with one of his other books (the "Art of..." series seems to be good, although I don't have any of them myself.)
Elegant Anatomy May 13, 2007
This clear, concise, beautiful book is the best comparison I've found of Eastern and Western medicines. If you're interested in exploring the differences and similarities between Eastern and Western healing traditions, this book is a wonderful place to start. It's clear, elegant, and packed with information. It is an excellent source of information on acupressure points for athletes.
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