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Multiple Muscle Systems

Biomechanics and Movement Organization

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Jack M. Winters

    1. College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Chemical, Bio., and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  2. Savio L-Y. Woo

    1. Department of Surgery Division of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Movement Systems

    1. Modeling Musculoskeletal Movement Systems: Joint and Body Segmental Dynamics, Musculoskeletal Actuation, and Neuromuscular Control

      • Felix E. Zajac, Jack M. Winters
      Pages 121-148

    2. Mechanical Impedance of Single- and Multi-Articular Systems

      • Neville Hogan
      Pages 149-164

    3. Linking Musculoskeletal Mechanics to Sensorimotor Neurophysiology

      • Gerald E. Loeb, William S. Levine
      Pages 165-181

  4. Principles Underlying Movement Organization: Upper Limb

    1. Principles Underlying Movement Organization: Upper Limb

      • Neville Hogan, Jack M. Winters
      Pages 182-194

    2. The Origin of Electromyograms — Explanations Based on the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis

      • A. G. Feldman, S. V. Adamovich, D. J. Ostry, J. R. Flanagan
      Pages 195-213

    3. Nonlinear Damping of Limb Motion

      • Chi-haur Wu, James C. Houk, Kuu-Young Young, Lee E. Miller
      Pages 214-235

    4. Principles Underlying Single-Joint Movement Strategies

      • Gerald L. Gottlieb, Daniel M. Corcos, Gyan C. Agarwal, Mark L. Latash
      Pages 236-250

    5. Organizing Principles Underlying Motor Skill Acquisition

      • Daniel M. Corcos, Gerald L. Gottlieb, Slobodan Jaric, Ronita L. Cromwell, Gyan C. Agarwal
      Pages 251-267

    6. Direction-Dependent Strategy for Control of Multi-Joint Arm Movements

      • G. M. Karst, Z. Hasan
      Pages 268-281

    7. The Organization of Human Arm Trajectory Control

      • Tamar Flash
      Pages 282-301

    8. The Activation of Mono- and Bi-Articular Muscles in Multi-Joint Movements

      • Stan Gielen, Gerrit-Jan van Ingen Schenau, Toine Tax, Marc Theeuwen
      Pages 302-311

    9. Optimized Strategies for Scaling Goal-Directed Dynamic Limb Movements

      • Amir H. Seif-Naraghi, Jack M. Winters
      Pages 312-334
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About this book

The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye­ head-hand coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable pertur­ bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly depict muscle ac­ tivity and interaction, until more recent times our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive. During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a considerable database regarding the com­ position and basic properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of the impor­ tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical laws. We have now col­ lected quantitative data for a wealth of human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and by the availability of computational power. What have we learned? This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human movement is not a mature discipline.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Chemical, Bio., and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Jack M. Winters

  • Department of Surgery Division of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

    Savio L-Y. Woo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multiple Muscle Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Biomechanics and Movement Organization

  • Editors: Jack M. Winters, Savio L-Y. Woo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9030-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-9032-9Published: 23 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9030-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 801

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Orthopedics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomedicine general

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