Biomechanics (2nd Revised Edition)

Description

“This book would be an exccellent text for an undergraduate kinsiology or first-year graduate student. I personally enjoyed the informal writing style Dr. Flanagan employs and found myself engaged throughout my reading.”

Michael Cavaliere, DPT, CSCS, North Hills Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy
for Doody’s Book Reviews

The second edition of Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach emphasizes the comprehension, retention, and application of the core concepts of biomechanics through the use of problem-based learning strategies. The author utilizes a student-centered approach by deploying a conversational writing style, tying new concepts to everyday experience, and emphasizing concepts over computation. A wide variety of pedagogical features aid this approach, with Section Questions, Competency Checks, and various boxed features serving to reinforce the content.

Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach is organized into 18 lessons that cover the three levels of biomechanical analysis: whole body, joint, and tissue. Rather than moving from one level to the next, the author deploys a “whole-part-whole” organization in which mechanical principles are described at the whole-body level, followed by relevant discussion of the basic material mechanics of biological tissues and unique properties of the muscle-tendon complex.

Key Features

• Process Boxes illustrate the link between inputs and outputs, providing a visual depiction of the underlying mechanics
• Nine detailed case studies have been added throughout the text, with a summary of all nine cases presented in the final lesson
• The use of vector diagrams has been greatly expanded in the Second Edition to help students better visualize key material
• Section Questions open each major section and present salient questions addressing the focus of the section
• Competency Checks ask students conceptual and quantitative questions to assist in gauging their understanding of the material
• Essential Math boxes provide a review of mathematical concepts
• Applied Research boxes provide examples that are helpful in illustrating biomechanical concepts and present evidence of the practical value of biomechanics

Table of Contents

1. Chapter  1  Introduction
2. Part  I  The Whole Body Level
   1. Chapter  2  Describing Motion: Linear Kinematics in One Dimension and One Direction
   2. Chapter  3  Describing Motion: Linear Kinematics in One Dimension and Two Directions
   3. Chapter  4  Describing Motion: Linear Kinematics in Two Dimensions
   4. Chapter  5  Describing Motion: Angular Kinematics
   5. Chapter  6  Describing Motion: Inertia and Momentum
   6. Chapter  7  Explaining Motion I: Linear Kinetics
   7. Chapter  8  Explaining Motion II: Angular Kinetics
   8. Chapter  9  Work-Energy
   9. Chapter  10  Collisions, Impacts, and the Conservation Laws
3. Part  II  Tissue Level
   1. Chapter  11  Mechanics of the Human Frame
   2. Chapter  12  Muscle-Tendon Mechanics
4. Part  III  Joint Level
   1. Chapter  13  Single Joint Concepts
   2. Chapter  14  Lower Extremity Biomechanics
   3. Chapter  15  Biomechanics of the Axial Skeleton
   4. Chapter  16  Upper Extremity Biomechanics
5. Part  IV  Limb Level
   1. Chapter  17  Multijoint Concepts
6. Part  V  Integrating the Levels
   1. Chapter  18  Putting It All Together

Author Biography

Sean P. Flanagan, PhD, ATC, CSCS – Professor, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California