Abstract
THIS book by the professor of orthopaedic surgery in the University of Iowa is a praiseworthy effort to bring together the recent contributions to the physiology of locomotion and the newer practice of orthopaedics on the basis of the general laws of mechanics as applied to human locomotion. The first half of the book deals with the general mechanics of locomotion with special reference to the structure of bone, the centre of gravity of the body, muscle action and fatigue. The second half deals with the special mechanics of locomotion and with ‘patho-mechanics'. The spine, posture, respiration and the individual joints of the limbs are studied in detail, both in the normal and the abnormal. The final chapters deal with the human gait in walking, running, jumping and climbing. The abnormal gaits of the infirm and crippled are analysed with special reference to the possibility of increasing their physiological efficiency.
Mechanics of Normal and Pathological Locomotion in Man
By Prof. Arthur Steindler. Pp. xix + 424. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1935.) 36s. net.
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Mechanics and Human Locomotion. Nature 137, 438 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137438a0
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