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Video Review

by Mark King,DC

Title:

The Video Atlas of Human Anatomy, Tape 4: The Head and Neck, Part I

Producer:

Robert Acland, FRCS

Publisher:

Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins

Contents:

1 of 5 sections, 2 hrs., 40 min.

Price:

$26.95

Part #:

V-460

This is part of a human anatomy video series that consists of five sections: (I) The Upper Extremity; (II) The Lower Extremity; (III) The Trunk; (IV) The Head and Neck, Part I; and (V) The Head and Neck, Part II.

As a successor to "The Lower Extremity," this video continues in the tradition of its counterparts; it uses unembalmed specimens and a rotating camera, with added visual effects to enhance the learning experience. The dissection subject virtually "floats," which gives you a unique 3-D view in vivid color! It is truly awesome.

Video Atlas of Human Anatomy not only uses colorful computer graphics to aid in its presentation, but includes a voiceover naming each component in the anatomy. An onscreen time marker corresponds with its combination reference guide and index, the latter in book form.

All of us in practice can get somewhat "rusty" in our knowledge of some aspects of anatomy. We typically deal with the exterior of live bodies. These videotapes provide an alternative to sitting down with a book or going back to the cadaver lab. Admittedly, the other tapes in this video series relating to the trunk, the upper extremity and the lower extremity are probably more clinically valuable and interesting for me, compared to the sections on the head. I feel, that all the chiropractic colleges would benefit their students by having these tapes in their libraries.

Again, I cannot overemphasize the clarity and "viewer-friendliness" of this atlas, and the series. I plan to see the rest of these tapes, as I can use the anatomy review, and I would recommend them to chiropractors, faculty and chiropractic students.

This series presents anatomy in an ideal form. Where were these tapes when we were forced to work on real subjects?