" Preface Acknowledgments Notations and Conventions Chapter 1. Kinematic Geometry of Human Motion: Body Position and Displacement 1.1 Defining body location 1.1.1 The coordinate method 1.1.2 Cartesian versus oblique coordinates 1.2 Defining body orientation 1.
2.1 Fixation of a local system with a rigid body 1.2.2 Fixation of a somatic system with a human body 1.2.3 Indirect method of defining body orientation 1.2.4 What is ""body rotation""? 1.
2.5 Describing position and displacement 1.2.6 Advantages and disadvantages of the various angular conventions 1.2.7 Determining body position from experimental recordings 1.3 Three-dimensional representation of human movement: Eye movement 1.3.
1 Eye orientation 1.3.2 Motions actually made by the human eye (Donders'' law and Listing''s law) 1.3.3 Rotation surfaces. The laws obeyed by the pointing head and arm movements 1.4 Summary 1.5 Questions for Review 1.
6 Bibliography Chapter 2. Kinematic Geometry of Human Motion: Body Posture 2.1 Joint configuration 2.1.1 Technical and somatic systems 2.1.2 The clinical reference system 2.1.
3 Globographic representation 2.1.4 Segment coordinate systems 2.1.5 Joint rotation convention 2.2 Kinematic chains 2.2.1 Degrees of freedom.
Mobility of kinematic chains 2.2.2 Open kinematic chains: The end-effector mobility 2.2.3 Kinematics models and mobility of the human body 2.2.4 Constraints on human movements 2.2.
5 Position analysis of kinematic chains 2.3 Biological solutions to kinematic problems 2.3.1 Internal representation of the immediate extrapersonal space 2.3.2 Internal representation of the body posture 2.4 Summary 2.5 Questions for Review 2.
6 Bibliography Chapter 3. Differential Kinematics of Human Movement 3.1 Velocity of a kinematic chain 3.1.1 Planar movement 3.1.2 Motion in three dimensions 3.2 Acceleration of a kinematic chain 3.
2.1 Acceleration of a planar two-link chain 3.2.2 Acceleration of a two-link chain in three dimensions 3.2.3 Acceleration of a multi-link chain 3.2.4 Jerk and snap 3.
3 Biological solutions to the problems of differential kinematics: Control of movement velocity 3.3.1 Control of approach: The tau hypothesis 3.3.2 Control of velocity in reaching movement 3.4 Summary 3.5 Questions for Review 3.6 Bibliography Chapter 4.
Joint Geometry and Joint Kinematics 4.1 Intrajoint kinematics 4.1.1 Articular surfaces and types of joints 4.1.2 Movement of articular surfaces 4.1.3 Geometry and algebra of intra-articular motion 4.
1.4 Ligaments and joint motion: A joint as a mechanical linkage 4.2 Centers and axes of rotation 4.2.1 Planar joint movement 4.2.2 Three-dimensional joint movement 4.3 Summary 4.
4 Questions for Review 4.5 Bibliography Chapter 5. Kinematics of Individual Joints 5.1 Nominal joint axes 5.2 The joints of the foot 5.2.1 Metatarsophalangeal joints. The foot as a two-speed construction 5.
2.2 The joints of the midfoot 5.3 The ankle joint complex 5.3.1 The talocrural joint 5.3.2 The subtalar joint 5.4 The knee 5.
4.1 The tibiofemoral joint 5.4.2 The patellofemoral joint 5.5 The hip joint and the pelvic girdle 5.6 The spine 5.6.1 Movement in synarthroses 5.
6.2 The lumbar and thoracic spine 5.6.3 The cervical region: Head and neck movement 5.6.4 The rib cage 5.7 The shoulder complex 5.7.
1 Individual joints 5.7.2 Movement of the shoulder complex: The scapulohumeral rhythm 5.8 The elbow complex 5.8.1 Flexion and extension 5.8.2 Supination and pronation 5.
9 The wrist 5.10 The joints of the hand 5.10.1 The joints of the thumb 5.10.2 The joints of the fingers 5.11 The temporomandibular joint 5.12 Summary 5.
13 Questions for Review 5.14 Bibliography Glossary Index About the Author ".