Feature: Updated throughout to incorporate the latest information from the biomechanics research literature. Topics added or significantly expanded include bone modeling and remodeling, osteoporosis, the female athlete triad, bone changes during spaceflight, joint flexibility, articular cartilage function, osteoarthritis, muscle fiber type conversion, eccentric muscle activity, the stretch-shortening cycle, muscle injuries, rotator cuff impingement syndrome, ACL rupture, low back pain, and gait economy.
Benefit: Provides students with the latest information on hot topics
of interest and relevance including such key areas as aging and young
children.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: Strong pedagogy now includes end of chapter glossaries as well as, key concepts, marginal definitions, sample problems, chapter summaries, Introductory and additional problems, and references.
Benefit: Provides students with the tools they need to learn the material.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: Problems and laboratory exercises are incorporated throughout
the text and updated to reference the content in the Dynamic Human CD.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: Technology integrated throughout the text with an Online Learning
Center box appearing on every chapter-opening page directing the student
to resources online, while related web sites at the end of each chapter
offer pertinent web sources to students.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: Includes new exercises incorporating the text's accompanying
Dynamic Human CD-Rom throughout the chapters.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: New 8.5" X 11", soft-cover design with perforation allows laboratory
manual pages to be completed and turned in to the instructor increasing
the practicality of the textbook.
Audience: All Type: New
Feature: Selected anatomical illustrations have been upgraded with additional
color content to increase clarity of instruction.
Audience: All Type: Retained
Feature: Includes numerous applications from sport, ergonomics, and daily living.
Benefit: Allows students to see that an understanding of biomechanics
is important for everyday life, and not just relevant to elite sports
performance.
Audience: All Type: Retained
Feature: Chapter 1 introduces students to problem solving, each chapter then includes sample problems and two problem sets, one introductory and a second more challenging sets. The text includes an appendix on basic math skills.
Benefit: This text helps students to understand this quantitative field,
by introducing mathematical concepts simply and progressing to more difficult
levels and by providing support in terms of examples, problems and the
appendix.
Audience: All Type: Retained
Feature: Takes an integrated approach with mechanical concepts included in the anatomical chapters (4-9) and anatomical concepts in the biomechanical chapters (10-15). Applications are throughout.
Benefit: Insures that the three key areas of anatomical structure, biomechanics
and application have the coverage required by the Biomechanics Academy
of AAHPERD.
Audience: All Type: Retained
Feature: Uses American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons joint angle measurement scheme.
Benefit: Enables students to read the professional and medical literature and have a head start on clinical careers such as physical therapy.
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