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9780470693049

Biomechanics in Sport: Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention: Olympic Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, Volume IX

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470693049

  • ISBN10:

    0470693045

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Biomechanics in Sport is a unique reference text prepared by the leading world experts in sport biomechanics. Over thirty chapters cover a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from muscle mechanics to injury prevention, and from aerial movement to wheelchair sport. The biomechanics of sports including running, skating, skiing, swimming, jumping in athletics, figure skating, ski jumping, diving, javelin and hammer throwing, shot putting, and striking movements are all explained.

Table of Contents

Muscle Action In Sport And Exercise
Muscle action in high force contractions
Functional properties and performance in skeletal muscles
Muscle-tendon architecture and athletic performance
Eccentric muscle action in sport and exercise
Stretch-shortening cycle
Biomechanical foundations of strength and power training
Locomotion
Factors affecting preferred rates of movement in cyclic activities
The dynamics of running
Lower extremity function during cycling
Competitive skill: technique, equipment and environmental factors affecting performance
Technique and power production in speed skating
Hydrodynamic resistance and propelling forces in swimming
Mechanical power and propelling efficiency in competitive swimming
Jumping And Aerial Movement
Aerial movement
The high jump
Ski jumping
Jumping in figure skating
Springboard and platform diving
Throwing
Throwing: basic principles
Flight of projectiles in sport
Hammer throwing: problems and prospects
Shot putting
Javelin throwing: an approach toward performance improvement
Injury Prevention And Rehabilitation
Mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury
Musculoskeletal loading during landing
Impact propagation and its effects on the human body
Sport related spine injuries and their prevention
Eccentric contraction: applied physiology and mechanics of muscle injury and rehabilitation
Special Olympic Sports
Manual wheelchair propulsion
Sport for amputees
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