Biomechanics for Life Introduction to Sanomechanics /

• Main Author: Pitkin, Mark R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Rehabilitation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

The reader will find in this book a new approach to improving health. The author has called this approach “sanomechanics,” combining the Latin sanus (healthy, sound) and mechanicus (science of the motion of bodies subjected to forces). The focus of sanomechanics is on exercising with an understandin...

Table of Contents:

• Floating skeleton concept
• Sanomechanics
• Biomechanics for life
• Sanomechanical exercises
• About forces and moments in locomotion
• Sanomechanics of respiration.