Overview
- Presents instruments and methods to evaluate human movement, locomotion and the physical status
- Helps planning and executing research endavours, in particular in clinical context
- Offers essentials of biomechanics- and biomedical engineering approaches
Part of the book series: Series in Biomedical Engineering (BIOMENG)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses instruments, methodologies and diagnostic methods used to evaluate and diagnose human movement, locomotion and physical status in general.
Starting from historical perspective, the idea of understanding human locomotion by applying technical measurement devices and incorporating measurement data into physical representation of gross body movement is presented and explained, an approach known as inverse dynamics. With this approach as a kind of umbrella concept, components of measurement systems including relevant signal and data processing methods are described. Modern instruments to capture body movement by measuring its kinematics, kinetics and surface electromyography (sEMG) are thus described; all systems being used dominantly—if not exclusively—in a movement analysis laboratory setting.Focusing mainly on human posture and gait, but including also examples of movement patterns from selected kinesiological and sports activities, the book attempts to present essentials of biomechanics and biomedical engineering approach to this subject matter. It illustrates how data collected and elaborated by modern engineering technology can complement traditional expert knowledge of a kinesiologist or a medical doctor. The book is applicable in the fields of sports, physical activities, as well as in medical diagnostics and rehabilitation. The examples of this book’s practical application might be in evaluation of efficiency of human gait, in evaluation of skeletal muscle fatigue in physical exercise, in biomechanical diagnostics of traumatological conditions requiring orthopaedic treatment and the like.
This book can also be used in planning and executing research endeavours, particularly in a clinical context as a reference for various diagnostics procedures. It presents the lecture notes of a course carrying the same name within Medical Studies in English at the University of Zagreb for more than a decade.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Vladimir Medved is retired full professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measurement and Analysis of Human Locomotion
Editors: Vladimir Medved
Series Title: Series in Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79685-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79684-6Published: 24 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79687-7Published: 25 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79685-3Published: 23 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1864-5763
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5771
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 371
Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Orthopedics, Human Physiology, Rehabilitation