Customer Reviews

Muscle/Bone Combo (flash cards)

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I am just finishing up a semester of undergraduate nursing/pre-OT anatomy and for my purposes would rate the bones cards 3 stars and the muscle cards 2 stars. The bones cards were helpful, although I later purchased the Barron's Anatomy Cards and found them to be more helpful (in color and include all body systems). The muscle cards were useless to me because they have each muscle isolated on its own card. Useless for a lab practical in which you have to identify muscles on a model - lying next to or underneath other muscles. It's too bad the author couldn't have included cards with all the muscles of a particular area together - muscles of the deep anterior forearm, for example.

These cards helped my prepare for tests more effectively. I am a massage therapy student and found these cards excellent to help me memorize innervations, muscles, etc. I also used the following:
Spinal Anatomy Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers
(ISBN: 0971999600)
Anatomy and Physiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
(ISBN: 0971999627)
The last two study guides helped me to prepare better for exams. In fact, they showed me the type of questions that are asked on tests. Buy all 3 to make studying anatomy a lot easier. I have friends who also used these three sources in nursing school and they found them quite helpful.

When I received the flashcards, I was rather disappointed by the boring outline in the back of the flashcard and by the monotonous coloring of the parts of the sketetal and muscle systems. It doesn't make things fun to learn by adding mnemonics devices or even some creative flair to it! It is a flashcard by all means. It has one side blank with a diagram and the other side with info such as origins, insertions, and the definition itself. Additionally, it has a table of contents. Some of the diagrams are really unclear though. Well, you will learn something from these cards, but to a snoozing point!
Good luck!

Good pictures and explanations. I think these flashcards are the perfect tool for review of the muscles and the bones of the body. These flashcards give you the name of the muscle, the attachments and where the muscles originate from, and also the innervation and actions of the particular muscle. The different parts of the bones are labeled. Overall these cards are very helpful.

These are okay, but it would be nice to have a few other muscles pictured (but just grayed out or something) to show its orientation with other muscles in the area.

Well i was anticipating better pictures, along the lines of computer generated, kind of like what you see in a text book. Instead these look like crappy hand drawn pictures, granted that all the info in the card are accurate its hard to distinguish the bones and muscles.

These are great but very in depth. So much more than I needed for anatomy and physiology class. But great non the less.

This has been a very frustrating purchase ... the cards are fine and a good study guide but I was under the impression that I was purchasing a NEW PRODUCT and there are several cards missing that are criticle to my studies

I was vcry happy as I received my purchase within a week! Thanks so much....I know that I will be ordering again in the future.