Capitulo 4: Principios físicos aplicados al análisis del movimiento corporal humano

Abstract

Biomechanics is the area of knowledge that deals with the study of the movement of living beings, including human body movement. movement of living beings, including human body movement. The main objective of this book is to describe the movement implicit in the execution of sports implicit in the execution of sports gestures. Certain aspects from mechanical physics (in its variants or branches of kinetics, kinematics and dynamics), kinematics and dynamics) are associated with the concept of biomechanics and with the development of the processes of movement and/or sport gesture analysis. All these aspects are susceptible of being measured, through the use of the different measurement systems that have been different measurement systems that have already been described. However, all the same qualities that are part of biomechanics and that can be measured, however, require more require more than a number and a unit of measurement to be perfectly categorized. perfectly categorized. It is in this way, that in this chapter This chapter will develop the concepts related to biomechanics that provide the most support movement analysis processes, such as the concept of kinetics, kinematics, kinematics, kinematic kinetics, kinematics, dynamics, but above all the concept of force, which explains from the most basic concept, the origin of movement (Miralles, 2007; Viladot, 2001; Aguilar, 2000; Nigg, 1994).