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    This document provides tips and mnemonics for studying muscles. It recommends looking at muscle pictures and treating each muscle like a new friend to learn their names. Mnemonics are suggested to correlate muscle origins and insertions, including relating them to people, places, and events. Examples are given for several back muscles, using silly stories and phrases to help remember key details about each muscle's structure and function. Repeated exposure to the muscles through review is encouraged.

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    This document provides tips and mnemonics for studying muscles. It recommends looking at muscle pictures and treating each muscle like a new friend to learn their names. Mnemonics are suggested to correlate muscle origins and insertions, including relating them to people, places, and events. Examples are given for several back muscles, using silly stories and phrases to help remember key details about each muscle's structure and function. Repeated exposure to the muscles through review is encouraged.

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    This document provides tips and mnemonics for studying muscles. It recommends looking at muscle pictures and treating each muscle like a new friend to learn their names. Mnemonics are suggested to correlate muscle origins and insertions, including relating them to people, places, and events. Examples are given for several back muscles, using silly stories and phrases to help remember key details about each muscle's structure and function. Repeated exposure to the muscles through review is encouraged.

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    TIPS FOR STUDYING MUSCLES

    1. Look at the pictures. Each muscle has a name. Treat each muscle like a new
    friend.  You may not recall a new friend’s name after the first time, but after
    many times of meeting up with them and saying “Hello!” to them, you will soon
    remember their names. So make it an effort to “meet” these new friends as often
    as possible. 

    2. Use mnemonics, color, talk to yourself while you study, try to correlate the
    origins and insertion together. It’s just like making an effort to find out where
    your “new friends” live, and where they come from. 

    3. There is no easy way out, you have to spend time looking at them, otherwise, you
    will forget about them!  Don’t be discouraged if you forget them as quickly as
    you remember them… even as I type this, I am revising forgotten knowledge.
    Life is a process of recalling and learning. So, all the best, and have fun. Don’t let
    these new friends discourage you… once you get to know them better, you will
    feel more comfortable being around them and everything will be much easier. 

    MNEMONICS I USED TO HELP ME REMEMBER.

    Recommended pic: Netter Plate 174 (Muscles of Back: Superficial Layers)

    P.S. I’ll give you some examples, but it’s up to you to learn how to develop a method that
    will help you understand and remember Anatomy. 

    1. Trapezius
    - basically starts from head and ends at T12, before my butt!
    - This muscle is triangular shaped!
    - Descending part is from my head.
    - Transverse part is from C7 to T3: at seven (C7) o’clock, I’ll climb a tree
    (T3).
    - Ascending part is just continuing on from the transverse part: T3 – T12.
    - Insertion is into my shoulder… C.A.S (clavicle, acromion, spine of
    scapula)
    - Nerve: Trapezius is triangular in shape, and it’s the most superficial
    muscle of the back. Trapezius remind me of earrings. Earrings are
    accessories. .: Innervation is by accessory nerve. Also, since it covers the
    neck area, it is also innervated by cervical plexus.
    - Function: Trapezius acts on the scapula because it inserts into it! Stand in
    anatomical position. When you lift up your hand, Trapezius contracts,
    scapula will be elevated. If you put down your lifted up hand, trapezius
    can relax, so scapula will be depressed. If you had stretched your hands in
    front, trapezius can contract to retract your scapula so that your hands
    come back to anatomical position. Since Trapezius inserts into all along
    the spine of scapula, only the top fibers can contract so that only the lateral
    part of the scapula is lifted up, that means scapula is rotated.

    2. Latissimus dorsi
    - Origin: V.I.C.S. (vertebral part, iliac part, costal part, scapular part)
    If you had watched the 1st Malaysian Idol, there was this guy I was really
    hoping would win, and his name was Vic. He was a ladies’ (LATissimus)
    man. :-P
    T6-12 (Imagine 6 to 12 ladies running)
    L1-5 (They were chasing after 1 to 5 men!)
    Iliac crest (They had super thin waists)
    Costal part: Rib 10-12 (So you could really see their 10 to 12 ribs sticking
    out of their chests)
    Scapular part: Inferior angle (that shows that all girls have inferiority
    complex)
    - Insertion:
    Humerus (Don’t you find this humorous? How there are always
    insufficient men for the ladies?)
    Here, there is another mnemonic… “The lady between 2 majors” 
    ladysimmus dorsi :-P (origin: crest of lesser tubercle) is always between
    pectoralis MAJOR (insertion: crest of greater tubercle) and teres
    MAJOR (insertion: crest of lesser tubercle)
    - Nerve:
    Thoracodorsal nerve (imagine the 6-12 ladies running with their thorax
    puffed out into the front and their dorsum puffed out behind)

    OTHER MNEMONICS WORTH SHARING:

    3. Serratus Posterior Superior


    Origin: you see six (C6) but take four (T4)

    4. Levator costae
    Is the 7-11 muscle i.e. origin is from C7 to T11

    5. Splenius Capitis
    Capitis sounds like captain. So you have to march three by three (Origin: C3 to
    T3) and follow sternocleidomastoid to its insertion at mastoid process.

    6. Splenius Cervicis
    Is basically the continuation of splenius capitis except that it forgot something, so
    for the insertion it had to “gostan balik” all the way to C1 to C3.

    7. Sacrospinal muscles: those long long muscles of the back


    I Love Sam but Sam Loves Irene. (Iliocostalis  Longissimus  Spinalis)
    Alternative: Spinalis is always most medial since it’s next to the spinal cord.

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