BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 HUMAN SKELETAL AND MUSCLE SYSTEMS -- HUMAN SKELETAL SYSTEM -- AXIAL AND VISCERAL SKELETON -- THE APPENDICULAR SKELETON -- HUMAN MUSCLE SYSTEM -- EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT -- MUSCLES OF THE LOWER LIMB -- MUSCLES OF THE UPPER LIMB -- MUSCLES OF THE HEAD AND NECK -- MUSCLES OF THE TRUNK -- CHAPTER 2 THE NATURE OF BONE -- EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE -- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES -- BONE MORPHOLOGY -- COMPACT BONE -- CANCELLOUS BONE -- EPIPHYSES -- OSTEONS -- BONE MARROW -- VASCULAR SUPPLY AND CIRCULATION -- BONE RESORPTION AND RENEWAL -- BONE REMODELING -- BONE FORMATION -- PHYSIOLOGY OF BONE -- CALCIUM AND PHOSPHATE EQUILIBRIUM -- PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL CONTROLS -- HORMONAL INFLUENCES -- NUTRITIONAL INFLUENCES -- CHAPTER 3 BONES OF THE HUMAN ANATOMY -- BONES OF THE HEAD -- THE SKULL -- FONTANEL -- ZYGOMATIC BONE -- PARIETAL BONE -- OCCIPITAL BONE -- NASAL CONCHAE -- BONES OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN -- VERTEBRAE -- THE NECK -- THE SACRUM -- THE COCCYX -- BONES OF THE UPPER BODY -- CLAVICLE -- SCAPULA -- STERNUM -- THE RIBS -- HUMERUS -- RADIUS -- ULNA -- THE HAND -- BONES OF THE LOWER BODY -- THE PELVIC GIRDLE -- FEMUR -- TIBIA -- FIBULA -- THE FOOT -- CHAPTER 4 THE NATURE OF MUSCLE -- STRIATED MUSCLE -- MUSCLE FIBRES -- MYOFIBRILS -- MYOFILAMENTS -- PROTEINS OF THE MYOFILAMENTS -- ACTIN-MYOSIN INTERACTION AND ITS REGULATION -- ENERGY STORES -- MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION -- SMOOTH MUSCLE -- STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION -- INITIATION OF CONTRACTION -- CROSS-BRIDGE CYCLE AND ATP BREAKDOWN -- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- CARDIAC MUSCLE -- STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION -- THE FREQUENCY OF CONTRACTION -- EXCITATION/CONTRACTION COUPLING -- FORCE AND VELOCITY OF CONTRACTION -- RESPONSE OF THE HEART TO STRESS -- MUSCLES OF MOVEMENT -- ABDUCTOR MUSCLE.

ADDUCTOR MUSCLE -- EXTENSOR MUSCLE -- FLEXOR MUSCLE -- SPHINCTER MUSCLE -- LEVATOR MUSCLE -- MUSCLES OF THE BACK -- SPINALIS MUSCLE -- SEMISPINALIS MUSCLE -- ERECTOR SPINAE -- ILIOCOSTALIS MUSCLE -- COCCYGEUS MUSCLE -- LATISSIMUS DORSI -- TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE -- MUSCLES OF THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN -- PECTORALIS MUSCLE -- INTERCOSTALIS MUSCLE -- ABDOMINAL MUSCLE -- MUSCLES OF THE ARM -- DELTOIDEUS MUSCLE -- BICEPS MUSCLE -- TRICEPS MUSCLE -- MUSCLES OF THE LEG -- GLUTEUS MUSCLE -- QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE -- SARTORIUS MUSCLE -- GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE -- SOLEUS MUSCLE -- CHAPTER 5 THE HUMAN BODY IN MOTION -- ANATOMY OF JOINTS -- JOINT MOVEMENTS -- JOINT COMPONENTS -- NERVE SUPPLY AND BLOOD SUPPLY OF JOINTS -- JOINT METABOLISM AND NUTRITION -- MAJOR TYPES OF JOINTS -- SYNARTHROSES -- DIARTHROSES -- CHAPTER 6 DISEASES AND INJURIES OF BONE -- PRINCIPAL TYPES OF DISEASES AND INJURIES -- ABNORMAL STRESS ON BONE -- METABOLIC BONE DISEASE -- DEFICIENT BLOOD SUPPLY TO BONE -- IONIZING RADIATION INJURY TO BONE -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF BONE -- BONE TUMOUR -- FRACTURES -- DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES AND HEREDITARY CONDITIONS -- CONGENITAL BONE DISEASES -- INHERITED DISORDERS -- DYSPLASIA -- BONE CYST -- BONE CANCER -- OSTEOCLASTOMA -- OSTEOSARCOMA -- ENCHONDROMA -- CURVATURE OF THE SPINE -- METATARSALGIA -- MARBLE BONE DISEASE -- MORQUIO SYNDROME -- OSTEOCHONDROSIS -- OSTEOMALACIA -- OSTEOPOROSIS -- PAGET DISEASE OF BONE -- POTT DISEASE -- SPONDYLITIS -- SPONDYLOSIS -- INDICATIONS OF MUSCLE DISEASE -- CHAPTER 7 DISEASES AND INJURIES OF MUSCLE -- PRIMARY DISEASES AND DISORDERS -- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY -- MYASTHENIA GRAVIS -- TOXIC MYOPATHIES -- MYOSITIS -- MYOSITIS OSSIFICANS -- ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC MYOPATHIES -- INDICATIONS OF MUSCLE DISEASE -- PERIODIC PARALYSIS -- TETANY -- TIC -- MUSCLE TUMOUR -- FATIGUE -- ATROPHY OF MUSCLE AND BONE -- ATROPHY IN AGING.

MUSCLE WEAKNESS -- ATROPHY IN DISUSE -- SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS -- DISEASE DETECTION -- CLASSIFICATION OF MUSCLE WEAKNESS -- CHAPTER 8 DISEASES AND INJURIES OF JOINTS -- TYPES OF ARTHRITIS -- BURSITIS -- INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS -- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND ALLIED DISORDERS -- GOUT -- COLLAGEN DISEASES -- MISCELLANEOUS TYPES OF ARTHRITIS -- TRAUMATIC JOINT DISEASES -- DISLOCATION -- FRACTURE-DISLOCATION -- SPRAIN -- ELBOW INJURIES -- KNEE INJURIES -- DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE -- CONGENITAL AND HEREDITARY -- JOINT ABNORMALITIES -- SECONDARY JOINT DISEASES -- HEMORRHAGIC JOINT DISEASES -- ASEPTIC NECROSIS -- ENDOCRINE FACTORS -- NEUROGENIC ARTHROPATHY -- HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY -- REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY -- TUMOURS OF JOINTS -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.