The Evolution of Biomechanics: Bringing movement theory back to life

The Evolution of Biomechanics presents an overview of the origins of the subject, looks at current human movement theory and provides a fresh insight into the future of the subject. Biomechanics frames the human organism and its motion as mechanical in nature and is considered a respected benchmark of human motion, kinesiology and movement analysis. But is this relationship between a living organism and mechanical principles still relevant in context with our twenty first century understand...