Biomechanical evaluation of movement in sport and exercise / Roshan Singh and John Michael D. Aquino.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Assessing movement -- Measurement of external forces -- Motion analysis -- Measurement of force and pressure -- Research methodologies.

"Biomechanics in sport incorporates a detailed analysis of sport movements in order to minimize the risk of injury and improve sports performance. Sport and exercise biomechanics encompasses the area of science concerned with the analysis of the mechanics of human movement. It refers to the description, detailed analysis and assessment of human movement during sport activities. Mechanics is a branch of physics that is concerned with the description of motion/movement and how forces create motion/movement. Therefore, sport biomechanics is the science of explaining how and why the human body moves in the way that it does. In sport and exercise, that definition is often extended to also consider the interaction between the performer, their equipment and the environment. Biomechanics is traditionally divided into the areas of kinematics and kinetics. Kinematics is the branch of mechanics that deals with the geometry of the motion of objects, including displacement, velocity, and acceleration, without taking into account the forces that produce the motion. Kinetics is the study of the relationships between the force system acting on a body and the changes it produces in body motion. This is a must-have text for all biomechanics laboratories and for any student undertaking a research project or course in methods, measurement or analysis in biomechanics"-- Back cover.