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100 1 _aCavagna, Giovanni.
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245 1 0 _aPhysiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Motor and the Machine /
250 _a1st ed. 2017.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2017.
300 _aXV, 274 p. 147 illus., 25 illus. in color.
_bCard Paper
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThis book offers a succinct but comprehensive description of the mechanics of muscle contraction and legged terrestrial locomotion. It describes on the one hand how the fundamental properties of muscle tissue affect the mechanics of locomotion, and on the other, how the mechanics of locomotion modify the mechanism of muscle operation under different conditions. Further, the book reports on the design and results of experiments conducted with two goals. The first was to describe the physiological function of muscle tissue (which may be considered as the “motor”) contracting at a constant length, during shortening, during lengthening, and under a condition that occurs most frequently in the back-and-forth movement of the limbs during locomotion, namely the stretch-shortening cycle of the active muscle. The second objective was to analyze the interaction between the motor and the “machine” (the skeletal lever system) during walking and running in different scenarios with respect to speed, step frequency, body mass, gravity, age, and pathological gait. The book will be of considerable interest to physiology, biology and physics students, and provides researchers with stimuli for further experimental and analytical work.
650 0 _aHumanities and Applied Science
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653 _aBiomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
653 _aHuman Physiology.
653 _aTheoretical and Applied Mechanics.
653 _aBiological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49980-2
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