Skillful Swimming in Age-Groups Is Determined by Anthropometrics, Biomechanics and Energetics

Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming XI

Energetics and biomechanics of locomotion by red kangaroos (Macropus rufus).

As red kangaroos hop faster over level ground, their rate of oxygen consumption (indicating metabolic energy consumption) remains nearly the same. This phenomenon has been attributed to exceptional elastic energy storage and recovery via long compliant tendons in the legs. Alternatively, red kangaroos may have exceptionally efficient muscles. To estimate efficiency, we measured the metabolic co...

Biomechanics of Competitive Swimming Strokes

Competitive swimming is one of the most challenging sports to perform scientific research. Not only the research of human movement is quite complex, because human beings are not so determinists as other (bio)mechanical systems; but also, assessing human beings in aquatic environment becomes even more as this is not their natural environment and other physical principles have to be considered. O...

Suspension biomechanics of swimming microbes.

Micro-organisms play a vital role in many biological, medical and engineering phenomena. Some recent research efforts have demonstrated the importance of biomechanics in understanding certain aspects of micro-organism behaviours such as locomotion and collective motions of cells. In particular, spatio-temporal coherent structures found in a bacterial suspension have been the focus of many resea...

Plantar Fasciitis: Biomechanics, Atrophy and Muscle Energetics

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