Clinical Biomechanics in Human Locomotion: Gait and Pathomechanical Principles

The interaction of genetics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and physiology under the influence of locomotive biomechanics and metabolic energetics, drives evolution.

Such biological pressures on survival are essential in understanding the locomotive biomechanics of modern humans. As lifestyle, including gait speed adaptability established during the years of growth influences anatomical development, the expected biomechanics sustained during walking or running is also considered.

Clinical Biomechanics in Human Locomotion: Gait and Pathomechanical Principles explores the clinical management of gait-disturbing or gait-induced pathologies and the biomechanical variance during gait between individuals. It also discusses what is required to make terrestrial human locomotion safe and what causes pathology within a context of high locomotive and morphological variability.