The tenth edition of Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion, is dedicated
to the memory of Katharine F. Wells, pioneer author and originator of the original
version of this text. This edition carries on a proud contribution to the professional
literature of human motion study started by Dr. Wells in 1950, and continued
with her active participation through the seventh edition. Although much of
the content of the current text has changed since that first edition, there
remains a significant heritage, which can be traced back to her original work.
Through her influence, she helped define and structure the teaching and study
of kinesiology for many generations of students. The authors of this tenth edition
are honored to be the current stewards for this classic text.
Since the publication of the first edition of this text, courses in kinesiology
have undergone many changes in both content and emphasis. Each subsequent edition
has reflected these changes, and the tenth edition is no exception. The primary
goals of this revision has been to update and expand the material where appropriate
and to strengthen the textbook as a pedagogical tool. Several of the chapters
have been expanded and updated in light of current research. The resultant content
makes this a book ideally suited to help students achieve an understanding of
the integrated nature of kinesiology as an area of study that includes both
anatomical and biomechanical components.
Audience
Moving into the twenty-first century, the traditional course often titled kinesiology
has been separated into courses in anatomy and biomechanics. This text attempts
to integrate the anatomy of human movement with the mechanics of human movement.
It is neither an anatomy text nor a biomechanics text, but is an intergrated
kinesiology text. The textbook is designed as a basic source to introduce the
undergraduate student to the fundamentals of kinesiology. Because the fundamentals
are presented without compromise of basic theory, this book may be used as an
introductory text. The book presents the subject in a fashion that presupposes
some background in anatomy and little in physics. The text does not shy away
from presenting material that requires some theoretical foundations in these
areas. Whatever background is needed to understand the various applications
is supplied, and numerous examples and exercises are provided. There is extensive
discussion of both anatomical and biomechanical fundamentals of human motion
and the application of these fundamentals to the analysis of a wide variety
of motor skills. For these reasons, the text is especially appropriate for use
in courses with these objectives:
To afford students the opportunity to learn a systematic approach to the
analysis of human motion.
To provide information that will help students obtain an understanding
of the anatomical and biomechanical fundamentals of human motion.
To provide the types of experiences that ask students to apply anatomical
and biomechanical analysis to the learning and improvement of a broad spectrum
of movement activities.
The organization of the text is as follows:
Introduction to the Study of Kinesiology
Part I: Anatomical and Physiological Fundamentals of Human Motion
Part II: Fundamentals of Biomechanics
Part III: Motor Skills: Principles and Applications
Organization
The Introduction to the Study of Kinesiology is a single chapter which sets
the stage by presenting a kinesiological analysis model. This chapter is intended
to lay the foundation for the remainder of the text. It is here that the student
will learn to organize the thought process involved in understanding human movement.
It is critical that the study of kinesiology begin here-with a systematic approach
to learning.
Part I, Anatomical and Physiological Fundamentals of Human Motion, consists
of eight chapters, each beginning with a discussion of the anatomical background
essential for understanding human movement followed by the presentation of a
systematic approach to kinesiological analysis. The emphasis throughout is on
the relation of anatomical structure to function, not on anatomy as such. It
is assumed throughout this section that the student has acquired a basic knowledge
of static anatomy as applied to stationary models, skeletons, and cadavers.
The emphasis in this text is the dynamic anatomy of the moving body. Applications
of the knowledge of structure to the analysis of human motion are introduced
in these early chapters so that the student can begin to put theory into practice
immediately, rather than wait until the knowledge base is more complete. Additional
laboratory experiences have been added to assist with this practice.
Major changes in part I include the early presentation of the analysis model,
which is then carried through all subsequent chapters. The laboratory experiences
for each of the anatomical chapters have been expanded to offer the student
the opportunity to participate in a systematic analysis as new knowledge is
gained.
Part II, Fundamentals of Biomechanics, presents the fundamentals of biomechanics
as they apply to human movement analysis. The first chapter introduces the student
to terminology and to the units of measure used when motion and the forces that
cause it are studied. This chapter is followed by chapters in which motion and
the forces that cause and modify it are described. The section concludes with
a chapter on the center of gravity and stability.
Part II provides an elementary approach to the material without oversimplifying
to the point where misconceptions could occur. In many instances the student
is shown the "proof" of a principle through experimental examples
or mathematical derivation. This approach is used in the belief that greater
understanding will result. The reward will be greater comprehension of the reasons
"why" optimum movement patterns occur as they do. It should be remembered,
however, that the emphasis in a first undergraduate course in kinesiology should
be on the development of the qualitative method of analysis. The introduction
of the quantitative method, if used, should be limited to understanding fundamental
concepts and not for extensive application to analysis of movement patterns.
Part III, Motor Skills, utilizes the kinesiological analysis system which has
been developed in concert with the anatomical and mechanical concepts that have
been presented. This analysis model forms the basis for the organization of
the nine chapters in part III. In each of these chapters the basic principles
of anatomy and mechanics are identified and applied to specific motor skills.
Sample analyses are also included.
Pedagogical Features
Helpful pedagogical tools in every chapter assist the learning process. These
include outlines, objectives, laboratory experiences, and references and selected
readings. Internet resources are provided in selected chapters.
There are nine appendices. These are intended to provide material which supplements
the basic concepts presented in the text:
- Glossary
- Classification of Joints and Their Movements
- Joint Range of Motion
- Muscular Attachments and Nerve Supply
- Mathematics Review
- Table of Trigonometric Functions
- U.S.?Metric Equivalents
- Exercises for Kinesiological Analysis
- Answers to Problems in Part II
New to this Edition
The analysis model is presented early in part I and is integrated through the
remaining chapters. Analysis examples are updated throughout to help better
explain anatomical and biomechanical concepts to undergraduates, including a
new discussion of ergometer rowing in Chapter 17.
Laboratory experiences for each of the anatomical chapters have been expanded.
Websites have been added at the ends of chapter 1 and the parts to obtain further
information to learn about human movement.
An online lab manual accompanies the tenth edition and provides additional
labs and applications.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the following individuals who served as reviewers for
their helpful comments and suggestions in revising the text:
Joel A. Bloom University of Houston
Michael Delp Texas A&M University
Ro DiBrezzo University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville
Inza L. Fort University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville
John Green Texas A&M University
Steve Henderson California State
University at Chico
Michael J. Higgins University of Delaware
Michelle Molnar Newman University (KS)
Paul A. Smith Huntington College (IN)
Donald H. Sussman Old Dominion
University
Thomas E. Temples North Georgia
College and State University
Appreciation is also expressed to the authors and publishers who graciously
gave permission to quote passages and reproduce illustrations from their publications.
The authors also wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to the generations of
students whose stimulus has been a vital reason for the existence of this book.
Finally, they would like to express their sincere thanks to the editorial and
production staffs of McGraw-Hill for their helpfulness throughout the preparation
of the edition.
Nancy Hamilton, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Kathryn Luttgens, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Preface to the
First Edition-
1950
This book is intended as a kinesiology text both for the teacher and for the
student. It is believed that there is enough material to use it as a text for
a full year's course yet, at the same time, by judicious selection of the subject
matter, by omission of the supplementary material, and by the substitution of
classroom demonstrations for some of the laboratory exercises, the book should
serve equally well as a text for a one-semester course in kinesiology. It is
left to the discretion of the instructor to select the material that meets his
particular needs.
In its original form this textbook was an unpublished handbook?laboratory manual.
It was used by the author in her kinesiology classes for three years before
it was expanded to its present form. The original manual did not serve as an
independent textbook. It was intended to be used as a companion book to a kinesiology
or anatomy text. Since this limited its usefulness, however, it was decided
to expand it to what is intended as a complete and independent textbook. For
those who like to use a single textbook for a course it should suffice. To help
the student (and the instructor) in collateral reading, most chapters in this
text contain a comprehensive bibliography. In many cases there is also a list
of readings which are particularly recommended. These bibliographies and reading
lists provide a rich source of information for the inquiring student.
In regard to the value of laboratory exercises and projects as a means of learning,
James B. Stroud, in his book Psychology in Education, points out that "Effectiveness
of instruction is not determined so much by what the teacher does, as by what
he leads the pupils to do. . . ." Again, "Perhaps one
of the most successful procedures for infusing learning with significance has
been the [educational method known as] constructive activities. . . .
The activity is thus a means of making learning meaningful and of giving it
a purpose." In accord with this point of view numerous laboratory exercises
are suggested. In conformity to the same principle, only a few complete analyses
of skills are presented, for it is the writer's contention that the students
will gain far more from making one complete analysis himself or herself than
from reading a dozen or more ready-made analyses.
As a further means of enriching the kinesiology course a number of the chapters
include supplementary material in the form of brief descriptions of research
projects in the field of anatomy and kinesiology. A few of these were carried
out by the author, but the majority were conducted by other investigators and
reported in professional journals. The purpose of including this material is
to broaden the instructor's background and to provide supplementary reading
assignments for advanced students.
It has been the intention of the author to write simply and to use nontechnical
terminology whenever this conveyed the meaning as clearly and specifically as
technical terms. The latter have been used, however, whenever they served to
avoid ambiguity. While it is desirable for the kinesiology students to enlarge
their scientific vocabulary, a text which confronts him with a staggering list
of new and strange words defeats its purpose. Textbooks should stimulate the
curiosity of their readers, not frighten them with a forbidding vocabulary.
The author acknowledges her indebtedness to many individuals without whose
help it is doubtful if this book could have been written. She wishes to express
her grateful appreciation particularly to Professor C. H. McCloy of the State
University of Iowa for his continued guidance, encouragement, and criticism,
also for his generous permission to use material from his course in The Mechanical
Analysis of Motor Skills, and to the students in her kinesiology classes of
the last three years who served patiently as "guinea pigs" and who
made many constructive suggestions concerning the laboratory exercises.
For the illustrations, which add immeasurably to the usefulness of the text,
grateful acknowledgment is made to Miss Mildred Codding, who made the anatomic
drawings.
The author is under obligation to a number of individuals for the use of photographs
and to several publishers for permission to reproduce copyrighted materials.
To all writers and teachers from whom the author, either wittingly or unwittingly,
has derived ideas which have provided the necessary background for the writing
of this book she humbly acknowledges her indebtedness.
Katharine F. Wells
1950 | 
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