“Anatomy by Planes” Anatomy Atlas

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"Different, holistic, and supplemental: this atlas builds on gross anatomy. It doesn't replace it."

Willem Kramer

Just as surgeons study surgical anatomy alongside their traditional anatomical training, we need a movement-based anatomy.

Movement does not happen muscle-by-muscle or structure-by-structure but within the anatomical planes of motion, where the integumentary, muscular, skeletal, and other systems collaborate as an integrated whole.

Motion is holistic.

With only a static, dissection-based view, we tend to see individual parts rather than the body as a whole.

Traditional anatomy supplemented with a motion-based understanding helps us move beyond this partial view. It lets us leverage reciprocal relationships between skin, muscles, joints, and motion, bringing us closer to resolving all our clients’ movement-based pain complaints.

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Atlas Description

Traditional anatomy organizes the body by structure. "Anatomy by Planes" reorganizes it by motion.

Over thirty years of treating musculoskeletal pain — across MLB, NBA, and NFL rosters, Olympic athletes, and clinical practice — Willem Kramer arrived at a consistent problem: traditional dissection anatomy doesn't show how skin, muscles, and joints relate to movement or to each other. It wasn't designed to. Its goal is structural description, not clinical application.

This three-atlas set fills that gap. Organized by the three anatomical planes of motion — sagittal, frontal, and transverse — it maps 345 muscles alongside the skin they connect with, the joints they cross, and the motions they generate. Nineteen interlocking complexes show how these structures relate across the whole body, not in isolation.

The result is a visual reference built around the questions soft-tissue therapists actually ask in practice: which skin, muscles, and joints are involved in this motion? How do they influence each other? What connects the hip to the knee, and the knee to the ankle?

"Anatomy by Planes" does not replace your gross anatomy training. It builds on it — and takes it somewhere traditional anatomy was never meant to go.

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Read about the features of this unique soft tissue therapy anatomy atlas and its benefits, listen to the preface, watch the introductory video, and more.
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Additional information

Weight 13.25 lbs
Dimensions 11.65 × 9 × 3.65 in
ISBN-13

979-8-9907549-0-4

Pages

950

Edition

1st edition

Print

2nd print

Category/HS Code

Books & Collectibles

New condition

PRISTINE, DENTED SLIPCASE

Processing time

ships in 1-2 business days

1 review for “Anatomy by Planes” Anatomy Atlas

  1. Willem

    When clients visit me for the first time, I use the atlas to help them understand the body’s reciprocal relationships. During treatment, I use it to look up interconnected, motion-involved skin, muscles, and joints. It is quite handy.

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