Biomechanics and biology of movement
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Biomechanics and biology of movement
Human Kinetics, c2000
Available at 28 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This reference text for biomechanists, exercise physiologists, motor behaviourists, athletic trainers and other kinesiologists provides an overview of how energy and work, balance and control, load factors, fatigue and exercise interact to affect performance.
Table of Contents
- Mechanical considerations of work and energy
- storage and release of elastic energy in the locomotor system and the stretch shortening cycle
- length changes of muscle-tendon units during athletic movements
- work and energy influenced by athletic equipment
- the three modes of terrestrial locomotion
- the pathways for oxygen and substrates
- energy and nutrient intake for athletic performance
- intensity of cycling and cycle ergometry - power output and energy cost
- basic concepts of movement control
- muscle activation and movement control
- power output and force-velocity properties of muscle
- stability and control of aerial movements
- movement control and balance in earthbound movements
- forces acting on and in human body
- force production in human skeletal muscle
- mechanical effects of forces acting on bone, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons
- biological response to forces acting in the locomotor system
- prevention of excessive forces with braces and orthotics
- contractile changes and mechanisms of muscle fatigue
- stretch-shortening cycle fatigue
- muscle fatigue monitored by force, surface mechanomyogram and EMG.
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