
Human Movement & Biomechanics
An Introductory Text
Description
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Section I. How Things Move and Flow
2. Force
3. Stability and Balance
4. Energy and Movement
5. Flow
Section II. Human Movement
6. Skeletal Muscle, Muscle Work, Strength, Power and Endurance
7. Joint Mobility
8. Posture and Balance
9. Motor Control
10. Development and Decline of Movement
Section III. Measurement of Movement
11. Nine Key Things That Define Physical Movement
12. Biomechanical Measurements Including Three-Dimensional Motion Analysis Systems
13. Clinical Measures of Mobility Within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework
14. Physical (In)Activity
Section IV. Restoring and Optimising Human Movement
15. Motor Relearning Principles
16. Ergonomics: The Influence of the Environment on Human Movement
17. Case Studies in Human Movement
Product details
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: March 26, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780702065002
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702062360