This is really a question for anyone that has any ideas to retain large amounts of information! But if there is anyone that can specificly help me with muscles that would be great...

How do you remember the names of all the muscles

I don't know what to do, I just cannot get them to stick in my head! There are so many and I know once I am working and actively talking about them i'll remember them but this is doing my head in!!!

I'm fine with the bones, it's just the muscles i'm struggling with. And why do they have to be such long, hard to spell words??? I mean sternocleidomastoid...really??? For that tiny muscle??? Who named that and what kind of day were they having???

If anyone has any tips I would really appreciate it! TIA!
when you remember all the muscles (as, indeed many medical terms) are in Latin, it makes it easier to remember.

in the back of my anatomy text it has a glossary of prefaces and suffixes, and once you see the pattern of the words it gets easier, too !

familiarity. get one of your kids or a friend to be your "dummy" and point to the muscles on their body while reading the names. in remedial massage we had life-size muscle charts to reference to while working on each other in the prac class