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Complimentary Instructor Tools
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Tools for Hearing- and Visually-Challenged Students
Foreign Language Versions of Trail Guide to the Body
Are You Considering ADOPTING TRAil Guide for your program?
Bodywork is first and foremost a “hands-on” endeavor. But palpation takes practice, practice and more practice. After all, before you can assess or treat a structure in the body, you must be able to locate it.
And this is where we come in. The best-selling Trail Guide to the Body enables your students to truly understand and practice palpatory anatomy. With this fundamental knowledge, they gain the confidence to succeed and the ability to thrive in their bodywork careers.
Our Trail Guide to the Body products are unrivaled in teaching hands-on anatomy. In addition, our palpatory anatomy tools appeal to all types of learning styles. Many instructors report meteoric rises in test scores when they began using Trail Guide. That is why more than 1,700 manual therapy programs around the world use our products.
Would you like to see what other instructors are saying about Trail Guide products? Visit our customer review page. Or check out the author notes or sample pages from the Trail Guide textbook.
To request complimentary desk or review copies, click here.
Complimentary Instructor Tools
The following Trail Guide to the Body instructor tools are complimentary when you require the Trail Guide to the Body textbook in your program. If you need assistance with any of these tools, please contact our Customer Service at 800-775-9227 or info@booksofdiscovery.com.
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Instructor Field Guide – Whether you are a new or experienced instructor looking for fresh ideas, or are just becoming familiar with Trail Guide to the Body, this instructor guide will be an invaluable resource for you. It contains general tips for palpation, starter questions, activities of daily living as related to the muscle in question and teaching activities that can be incorporated into your lesson plans. |
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Backpack CD – Contains more than 400 pages of classroom activities, tests, quizzes, word finds and crossword puzzles based on Trail Guide to the Body. |
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Image Library – You can now download up to 50 images from the 600+ Trail Guide to the Body Image Library for use in PowerPoint presentations or course management systems such as Blackboard or Moodle.
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Curriculum - Ready for some interesting new ideas for teaching with Trail Guide to the Body? Highly acclaimed educators Clint Chandler and Rob Killam, and educational consultant Steve Schenkman have developed effective and creative Trail Guide curricula. We now offer a complimentary 40-hour (sample here) and 60-hour (sample here) curriculum based on Trail Guide to the Body. The curricula can serve as complete templates or provide some new, engaging approaches.
40-hour curriculum: This curriculum focuses on kinesiology through the use of resistance bands. It allows students to take an active role in the learning process by kinesthetically exploring the musculoskeletal system using movement and palpation.
60-hour curriculum: Our flexible, easy-to-modify 60-hour Anatomy of Human Muscles & Palpation curriculum, with 15 individual class lesson plans, integrates all of Books of Discovery's state-of-the-art resources, making it a holistic, multi-media, quick-learning and easy-to-understand experience. Also includes syllabus.
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DVD – Have your students practice their skills at home or review in-class during clinical sections with the Trail Guide to the Body DVD. Great for kinesthetic learners.
Retail Price: $21.95 / $17.56 if you order 1-9 copies, $15.37 if you order 10 or more.
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PowerPoint – With 500 slides and more than 900 illustrations, it contains nearly every anatomy and palpation illustration from the textbook as well as AOIN information. This PowerPoint is also available in a downloadable version.
Retail price - $75.00
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Overhead Packet – This packet contains 234 pages with nearly 750 illustrations from Trail Guide to the Body.
Retail price - $149.95 / Your price if you require Trail Guide - $89.97
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Audiofile – Trail Guide to the Body author Andrew Biel narrates this three-hour series that explores the body’s 100 major muscles. The Audiofile follows the seven chapters in the book and includes the introduction to the muscle, AOIN information and step-by-step instructions for palpating each muscle. Great for auditory learner and to assign as homework. Instructors, you can also link it to your PowerPoint presentations.
Retail price - $9.95 / Complimentary with the Trail Guide Trio
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Tools for Hearing- and Visually-Challenged Students
Foreign Language Versions of Trail Guide to the Body
- Japanese language: Trail Guide to the Body textbook, Student Handbook and Trail Guide to the Body DVD
- Korean language: Trail Guide to the Body textbook and Trail Guide to the Body Student Handbook
The distributors of these versions can be found here.
A Japanese language interview with author Andrew Biel can be read by clicking here.
- NEW! Spanish language version of the Trail Guide to the Body textbook. It is available on our website or by visiting the European publisher of this edition.
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