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Viewed as a mechanical system human body possesses interesting properties. Study of movement and locomotion of the body, as a whole, has revealed many features that can adequately be modeled, on the macroscopic level, by mechanical analogs. Biomechanical functioning of the body cannot eventually be separated from the physiological one - these two approaches being essentially integrated (1,2). In spite of this, the study of mechanical (kinematic and kinetic) variables of movement only has nevertheless led to many important findings regarding the interplay between active (muscle generated), passive and inertial forces and moments of forces the body is constrantly being subjected to in the course of various movement patterns.
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Medved, V. (1986). Micro-Computer Based Measurement and Processing Method for Human Locomotor System’s Take-Off Properties Evaluation. In: Wieringa, H. (eds) Experimental Stress Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4416-9_13
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