Musculoskeletal tips

[celkon]

We just started doing musculoskeletal system, doesn't anyone know any good books that can aid my studying? Maybe USMLE review books or anything else?

Any tips would be great.

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[christina30]

We just started doing musculoskeletal system, doesn't anyone know any good books that can aid my studying? Maybe USMLE review books or anything else?

Any tips would be great.

Gray's Anatomy for Students (and probably a lot of other anatomy books) have great tools in their chapters on upper/lower limb - charts that document every muscle, it's origins/insertions, innervations, and actions all organized by compartment. I found that extremely helpful in organizing information.

Also, Musculoskeletal System by Phil Sambrook is a decent book. It's paperback and really thin, so it's not horribly expensive.

 

[Forthegood]

Try drawing it out on a whiteboard. I mean the leg, not a chart. You'll be surprised at how much better you can draw now that you know the structures so well, and that will cement it in your mind better than some book anyway.

I remember 0 charts and the same number of book facts from gross, but i remember the drawings and I remember the radiology.

 

[switcheroo]

I also just started MSK at my school. We don't have an official textbook for the course, but the course director said "Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care" by Sarwark looked good to him on first glance. It's pretty pricey on Amazon, but if you really want a textbook it might be worth considering.

 

[christina30]

Try drawing it out on a whiteboard. I mean the leg, not a chart. You'll be surprised at how much better you can draw now that you know the structures so well, and that will cement it in your mind better than some book anyway.

I remember 0 charts and the same number of book facts from gross, but i remember the drawings and I remember the radiology.

I think it depends on the way you learn as an individual - I'm not a visual learner at all, so pictures and diagrams do next to nothing for me, hence why I preferred the charts, which organized everything the same way a diagram would (separated by compartment of the limb, etc.) but with just words, no pictures, so I understood so much better.

Not sure how the OP learns, but at least now they have the 2 options to choose from 👍