Biomechanics in sport : performance enhancement and injury prevention /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Blackwell Science,
2000.
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| Series: | Encyclopaedia of sports medicine ;
v. 9. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Muscle action in sport and exercise
- Neural contributions to changes in muscle strength
- Mechanical properties and performance in skeletal muscles
- Muscle-tendon architecture and athletic performance
- Eccentric muscle action in sport and exercise
- Stretch-shortening cycle of muscle function
- Biomechanical foundations of strength and power training
- Pt. 2. Locomotion
- Factors affecting preferred rates of movement in cyclic activities
- The dynamics of running
- Resistive forces in swimming
- Propulsive forces in swimming
- Performance-determining factors in speed skating
- Cross-country skiing: technique, equipment and environmental factors affecting performance
- Pt. 3. Jumping and aerial movement
- Aerial movement
- The high jump
- Jumping in figure skating
- Springboard and platform diving
- Determinants of successful ski-jumping performance
- Pt. 4. Throwing and hitting
- Principles of throwing
- The flight of sports projectiles
- Javelin throwing: an approach to performance development
- Shot putting
- Hammer throwing: problems and prospects
- Hitting and kicking
- Pt. 5. Injury prevention and rehabilitation
- Mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury
- Musculoskeletal loading during landing
- Sport-related spinal injuries and their prevention
- Impact propagation and its effects on the human body
- Neuromechanics of the initial phase of eccentric contraction-induced muscle injury
- Pt. 6. Special Olympic sports
- Manual wheelchair propulsion - Sports after amputation.