Multiple Muscle Systems
Biomechanics and Movement Organization
Editors: Winters, Jack M., Woo, Savio L-Y. (Eds.)
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The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye head-hand coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable pertur bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly depict muscle ac tivity and interaction, until more recent times our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive. During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a considerable database regarding the com position and basic properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of the impor tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical laws. We have now col lected quantitative data for a wealth of human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and by the availability of computational power. What have we learned? This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human movement is not a mature discipline.
- Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Modeling Muscle Mechanics (and Energetics)
Pages 1-23
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The Charge-Transfer Model of Myofilamentary Interaction: Prediction of Force Enhancement and Related Myodynamic Phenomena
Pages 24-45
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Modeling of Lengthening Muscle: The Role of Inter-Sarcomere Dynamics
Pages 46-56
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Architecture and Elastic Properties of the Series Elastic Element of Muscle-Tendon Complex
Pages 57-68
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Hill-Based Muscle Models: A Systems Engineering Perspective
Pages 69-93
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Multiple Muscle Systems
- Book Subtitle
- Biomechanics and Movement Organization
- Editors
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- Jack M. Winters
- Savio L-Y. Woo
- Copyright
- 1990
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4613-9030-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4613-9030-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-9032-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 801
- Topics
