Main description:

Biomechanics and Gait Analysis presents a comprehensive book on biomechanics that focuses on gait analysis. It is written primarily for biomedical engineering students, professionals and biomechanists with a strong emphasis on medical devices and assistive technology, but is also of interest to clinicians and physiologists. It allows novice readers to acquire the basics of gait analysis, while also helping expert readers update their knowledge. The book covers the most up-to-date acquisition and computational methods and advances in the field. Key topics include muscle mechanics and modeling, motor control and coordination, and measurements and assessments.

This is the go to resource for an understanding of fundamental concepts and how to collect, analyze and interpret data for research, industry, clinical and sport.

Contents:

1 Introduction to biomechanics 2 Basic biomechanics 3 Advanced biomechanics 4 Why and how we move: the Stickman story 5 Power spectrum and filtering 6 Revisiting a classic: Muscles, Reflexes, and Locomotion by McMahon 7 The basics of gait analysis 8 Gait variability: a theoretical framework for gait analysis and biomechanics 9 Coordination and control: a dynamical systems approach to the analysis of human gait 10 A tutorial on fractal analysis of human movements 11 Future directions in biomechanics: 3D printing