TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Biomechanics: An Interdisciplinary Tool
A1  - Swanson, Stephen C.
A1  - Frappier, John P.
A1  - Shamus, Eric
A2  - Shamus, Eric
A2  - Shamus, Jennifer
PY  - 2017
T2  - Sports Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation, 2e
AB  - Human  movement  has  long  fascinated  scientists,  clinicians,  philosophers,  and  artists.  Some  of  the  greatest  minds  in  history  have  expressed  an  interest  in  describing  and  understanding  human  motion.  The  famous  Greek  philosopher  Aristotle  (384–322  bc),  the  Roman  physician  Galen  (131–201  ad),  the  brilliant  artist  Leonardo  da  Vinci  (1452–1519),  and  Italian  scientist  ­Giovanni  Borelli  (1608–1679)  all  provided  detailed  and  insightful  descriptions  of  human  movement  and  functional  anatomy.1  Although  these  descriptions  were  purely  qualitative,  the  astute  observations  and  attention  to  detail  were  similar  in  many  ways  to  modern  biomechanics.  The  similarities  lie  in  the  fact  that  their  descriptions  were  rooted  in  a  desire  to  better  understand  the  human  body  as  a  whole,  either  from  a  biological  perspective  or  from  an  artist’s  need  to  better  represent  human  movement  in  paintings  and  sculpture.  In  either  case,  human  movement  analysis  was  used  as  a  tool  to  provide  better  understanding  of  the  questions  at  hand.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1142279200
ER  -