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Roy Meals is an orthopedic surgeon and an avid outdoor enthusiast. He grew up in suburban Kansas City, attended Rice University (BA). and Vanderbilt University (MD). He performed his orthopedic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and hand surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Along the way, he served as a general medical officer (Major) in the USAF before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he continues to practice, teach, investigate, and write about the musculoskeletal system.

He has served as editor in chief for the Journal of Hand Surgery and as President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Away from work, he has hiked, walked, and/or bicycled on all 7 continents and ardently gardens at home in Los An ...more

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What do ligaments look like, anyway?

Ligaments hardly get any respect. By comparison, bones in natural history museums and on X-rays are fascinating. We can also marvel at dissembled ones on otherwise empty dinner plates. Muscles, too, get their due. Since they are just under the skin, we have a sense of their shape, can feel them contact and relax, and note the effects of conditioning and overexertion. Artists have sculpted bulging

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	An Atlas of Forearm and Hand Cross-Sectional Anatomy: With Ct and Mri Correlation by Roy A. Meals (Goodreads Author), Leanne L. Seeger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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