Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports

"Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports" contains in-depth discussions on the fundamental biomechanical and physiological principles underlying the acts of throwing, shooting, hitting, kicking, and tackling in sports, as well as vision training, sports injury, and rehabilitation. The topics include: golf ball aerodynamics and golf club design; golf swing and putting biomechanics; tennis ball aerodynamics and ball; and shoe-surface interactions; tennis stroke mechanics and optimizing ball-racket interactions; baseball pitching biomechanics and perceptual illusions of batters; football forward pass aerodynamics and tackling biomechanics; soccer biomechanics; basketball aerodynamics and biomechanics; vision training in sports; children maturation and performance; and rehabilitation and medical advances in treatment of sports injuries. This book is essential reading for biomedical engineers, physicists, sport scientists, and physiologists who wish to update their knowledge of biomechanical and biomedical principles and their applications to sports. The book can be used in a one-semester Senior or Graduate-level course in Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Sports Technology, Sports Medicine, or Exercise Physiology. In addition, it will be of value to interested athletic laypersons who enjoy watching or participating in sports such as golf, tennis, softball, football, soccer, and basketball.

ISBN 0306484773   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780306484773 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1208 Publisher Springer Science+Business Media   Published in New York Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers   Series ISSN 1 Format Hardback   Series title Bioengineering, Mechanics, and Materials: Principles and Applications in Publication date 24 Jun 2004   Height (mm) 248 Library of Congress RC1235, RC1235.B56   Width (mm) 165 DEWEY 612.044   Spine width (mm) 32 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly Pages 528

I		Golf		1
1		Aerodynamics of the golf ball by Alexander J. Smits and Steven Ogg		3
2		Engineering methodology in golf studies by Arthur C. P. Chou		29
3		Physics and mechanics of the golf swing by Stephen J. B. Mather		47
4		Eye and head movements during the golf putting stroke by George K. Hung		75
II		Tennis		97
5		Tennis ball aerodynamics and dynamics by Rabindra D. Mehta and Jani Macari Pallis		99
6		Shoe-surface interaction in tennis by Sharon J. Dixon and Alison Cooke		125
7		Biomechanics of tennis strokes by Duane Knudson and Bruce Elliott		153
8		Optimizing ball and racket interaction by Howard Brody and Paul Roetert		183
III		Baseball		207
9		Biomechanics of pitching by Nigel Zheng and Glenn S. Fleisig and Steve Barrentine and James R. Andrews		209
10		The rising fastball and other perceptual illusions of batters by Terry Bahill and David G. Baldwin		257
IV		Football and soccer		289
11		Aerodynamics of the forward pass by William J. Rae		291
12		Biomechanics of tackling by Thomas W. Journell		321
13		Biomechanics and aerodynamics in soccer by Matt Carre and Takeshi Asai		333
V		Basketball		365
14		Aerodynamics and biomechanics of the free throw by George K. Hung and Brian Johnson and Adrienne Coppa		367
15		Make every free throw by Thomas Amberry and Philip Reed		391
VI		Performance and rehabilitation		405
16		Vision training and sports by Kenneth J. Ciuffreda and Bin Wang		407
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