In recognition of his achievements, he has received several awards, including the Geoffrey Dyson Award from the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport (the society's highest honor) and the USSR's National Gold Medal for the Best Scientific Research in Sport in 19.ĭr. Zatsiorsky is a prolific writer who has authored or coauthored more than 240 scientific papers and several books on various aspects of biomechanics. In addition to his academic pursuits in the classroom, laboratory, and field, Dr. He also was director of the USSR's All-Union Research Institute of Physical Culture for three years. For 26 years he served as consultant to the national Olympic teams of the USSR. Zatsiorsky served for 18 years as professor and department chair of the Department of Biomechanics at the Central Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow.

Prior to coming to North America in 1990, Dr. He also is the director of the university's biomechanics laboratory. He has been a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at The Pennsylvania State University since 1991. Zatsiorsky, PhD, is a world-renowned expert in the biomechanics of human motion. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The foremost biomechanist of the former Soviet Union, and a professor at The Pennsylvania State University since 1991, Vladimir Zatsiorsky shares his 35 years of research and teaching in biomechanics in what may well be the most important biomechanics book of the 1990s. The book is well illustrated and clearly written as the author skillfully integrates mechanical models with biological experiments.

The text features 23 refreshers of the basic concepts and many practical examples. While the book is advanced and assumes a knowledge of calculus and matrix algebra, the emphasis is on explaining movement concepts, not mathematical formulae. The book includes the three-dimensional analysis of 26 specific human joints, from the temporomandibular joint to the joints of the midfoot. Zatsiorsky examines differential kinematics of human motion by ''adding'' the variables of velocity and acceleration in simple and complex biokinematic chains and by adding the variable of three-dimensional movement to the study of multilink chains. The book begins with careful descriptions of how to study human body position and displacement without regard to time, velocity, or acceleration. This book is the first major text on the kinematics of human motion and is written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject.

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