This page has tutorial presentations and PDF files to provide a more in-depth look at the MMM textbook. Included are excerpts from Mastering Muscles & Movement – A Brain-Friendly System for Learning Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Basic Kinesiology, as well as other support files. Note that more downloads (individual book pages) are available on the "Gallery of Illustrations" page elsewhere on this website.
Flipbook Demonstration Demonstration of the book: This is a 140-page subset of the
physical book. It includes portions of Chapters 1-5, 7, and 8, and includes
Chapter 6: Lower Extremity in full. It is displayed as a flipbook to provide a better experience of how the page layouts support the
brain-friendly approach employed in the book.
Flipbook: Demo of the Paperback Book
Enhanced E-Book Demonstration Demonstration copy of the Enhanced E-book: This is a subset of the enhanced e-book to demonstrate its
interactive features, and to show the
ebook-only material added in the appendices. It includes portions of Chapters 1-5, 7, and 8, includes Chapter 6: Lower Extremity in full, and includes the Lower Extremity portions of the appendices.
Enhanced E-book: 200-page Sample (PDF 33.65MB)
NOTE: This demonstration is a PDF sample of the interactive e-book that can be ordered at
VitalSource.com. To best experience the e-book's interactive features, please download the PDF and view it using Acrobat Reader. Set your reader to "Single Page View" and
disable "Scrolling".
User Guide for the Enhanced E-book: This User Guide describes how the e-book is enhanced beyond the physical book, and demonstrates how to use the e-book's interactive features. Examples show how to navigate within the book, and illustrate how the tables and figures in the main text are linked to the supporting material in the Appendices.
User Guide for the Enhanced E-book (PDF 11.48MB)
Tutorials Using the Brain-Friendly System (slide show) - This interactive presentation goes through the information in Chapter 3 of the book, which describes the organization and style of the main muscle chapters (Chapter 4 - 6). Note that a PDF of Chapter 3 from the book is available below in the "Excerpts" section of this page.
Slide Show: Chapter 3 - Using the Brain-Friendly System
Handout to go with the slide show:
Chap3 Sample Book Pages (PDF 12.05MB)
Excerpts from the Book Front matter from the book: Includes copyright info, reviews, preface, table of contents, and notes about the author and the development of the "brain-friendly" approach.
Download Front Matter (PDF 2.72MB)Chapter 3 - Using the Brain-Friendly System to Optimize Your Learning provides a complete orientation to the organization and style of the main muscle chapters in the book (Chapter 4 - 6). After reading this chapter, the learner will be ready to fully utilize the brain-friendly features of the material. Chapter 3 also describes the types of information that must be learned, how that knowledge will be used in practice, and gives some general observations that help reduce the amount of rote memorization that may be required.
Download Chapter 3 (PDF 6.86MB)
Chapter 6 - Muscles That Move the Lower Extremity: This excerpt contains 16 pages from Chaper 6 for a full-size example of the layout of the muscle chapters.
Download Chapter 6 (excerpt) (PDF 10.48MB)