Enhancing performance and reducing stress in sports : technological advances /: technological advances. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Cognitive Systems Monographs
• Further Information: Note: Tijana Ivancevic, Helen Greenberg, Ronald Greenberg.
• Authors: Ivancevic, Tijana; Greenberg, Helen; Greenberg, Ronald
• Contents: ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Modern Technologies in Sports Treatments and Therapies: Diamond Sports Protocol""; ""1.2 The Goal: Outstanding Sports Performance""; ""1.2.1 Football Case Study: Spain, the Soccer World Champion, and Its Total Football""; ""1.2.2 Basketball Case Study: How to Become an NBA Superstar""; ""1.2.3 The Fastest Man on Earth""; ""1.3 Human Body and Its Environment""; ""1.3.1 Remark on Notation Used (Both Anatomical and Mathematical)""; ""References""; ""2 Neuro-Biomechanics of Human Movement"" ""2.1 What is Neuro-Biomechanics?""""2.1.1 Founding the Science of Human Movement""; ""2.1.2 Anohin's Theory of Physiological Functional Systems""; ""2.1.3 Movement as a Dynamic Form of Human Behavior""; ""2.1.4 Neural Motion-Pattern Architecture""; ""2.2 Neurophysiology of Superstars in Soccer and Basketball""; ""2.2.1 Dribbling on the Ground Versus Dribbling in the Air""; ""2.2.2 The Cerebellum""; ""2.3 How to Develop the Superior Speed of Movement?""; ""2.3.1 Speed-Related Neuro-Muscular Training""; ""2.4 Hierarchical Neural Controller for Muscular Synergy and Movement Coordination"" ""2.4.1 Spinal Level of Movement Control""""2.4.2 Vestibular Level of Movement Control""; ""2.4.3 Cerebellar Level of Movement Control""; ""2.4.4 Cortical Level of Movement Control""; ""2.5 Musculo-Skeletal Effector System""; ""2.5.1 Muscular Anatomy""; ""2.5.2 Muscular Physiology""; ""2.6 Mechanics of Human Movement""; ""2.6.1 Biomechanical Configuration Manifold and Its Main Dynamic Chains""; ""2.6.2 Sports Algorithms: Effective Combinations of Configuration Chains""; ""2.7 Computational Biomechanics""; ""2.7.1 Lagrangian Preliminaries""; ""2.7.2 Conservative Lagrangian Dynamics"" ""2.7.3 Dissipative and Muscle-Driven Lagrangian Dynamics""""2.7.4 SE(3)-Head Simulator: Coupled Newton-Euler Dynamics""; ""2.7.5 Conservative Hamiltonian Biomechanical System""; ""2.7.6 A More Realistic Hamiltonian Chain""; ""2.7.7 Affine Biomechanical Control System""; ""2.8 Thermodynamics of Human Movement""; ""2.8.1 Linear Thermodynamical Force -- Velocity Relation""; ""2.8.2 Hill's Force -- Velocity Data-Fitting""; ""2.8.3 Nonlinear Thermodynamical Force -- Velocity Relation""; ""2.8.4 Hill's Dynamical Equations""; ""2.8.5 Simulating Prigogine's Gradient System"" ""2.8.6 (1+1)-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Simulator""""References""; ""3 Modern Technologies for Increasing Performance and Reducing Stress""; ""3.1 Modern Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation""; ""3.1.1 NMES Essentials""; ""3.1.2 Motor Points, Equivalent Muscular Actuators and Sherrington's Cross-Reflexes""; ""3.1.3 Basic Set of NMES Simulations""; ""3.2 NMES-Basis of Sports Training""; ""3.2.1 Universal Training Complement""; ""3.2.2 NMES as a Plyometrics Complement""; ""3.2.3 NMES-Based Sports-Dependent Training Complement""; ""3.3 Universal Techno-Sports Recuperator""
• Publisher Details: Heidelberg [Germany] : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 620 796.01; Biomechanics; Athletic Performance -- physiology; Biomechanical Phenomena -- physiology; Vibration; Mechatronics; Machinery; Engineering; Dynamics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3662440962; 9783662440964; 3662440954; 9783662440957
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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