Lesson

Basic Biomechanical Terminologies

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What I Know
The result of the following pre assessment will check your prior know
understanding and skills regarding biometrics.

Pre-Assessment:

Directions: Choose the letter of your answer inside the box. Write your
chosen answer in your activitynotebook.

a. Mechanics f. Statistics
b. Dynamics g. Life
c. Kinetics h. Sports Medicine
d. Kinematics i. Kinesiology
e. Sports and exercise j. Biomechanics

1. This is branch of physics that analyzes the actions of forces on

particles systems and mechanical.

2. This is branch of mechanics dealing with systems in a constant

state of motion
3. This is the study of the actions of forces.
4. This involves the study of the size, sequencing, and timing of
movement, without reference to the forces.

5. This study of human movement.

6. This encompasses the area of science concerned with the analysis of

the mechanics of human movement.
7. The clinical and scientific aspects of sports and exercise.

8. “Bio” means ?
9. This is branch of mechanics dealing with systems subject to
acceleration

10.Is science of explaining how and why the human body moves in
the way that it does.

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 What is It
Time to Read
The term biomechanics combines the prefix bio, meaning “life,”
with the field of mechanics, which is the study of the actions of forces.
Statics and dynamics are two major subbranches of mechanics.
Biomechanics in sports incorporates detailed analysis of sport
movements in order to minimize the risk of injury and improve sports
performance. Sport and exercise biomechanics encompasses the area of
science concerned with the analysis of the mechanics of human
movement. It refers to the description, detailed analysis and assessment
of human movement during sport activities. Mechanics is a branch of
physics that is concerned with the description of motion/movement and
how forces create motion/movement. In other words sport biomechanics
is the science of explaining how and why the human body moves in the
way that it does.

In sport and exercise that definition is often extended to also

consider the interaction between the performer and their equipment and
environment. Biomechanics is traditionally divided into the areas of
kinematics which is a branch of mechanics that deals with the geometry
of the motion of objects, including displacement, velocity, and
acceleration,
without taking into account the forces that produce the motion while
kinetics is the study of the relationships between the force system acting
on a body and the changes it produces in body motion. In terms of this
there are skeletal, muscular and neurological considerations we also
need to consider when describing biomechanics.

Figure 1 shows Biomechanics uses the principles of mechanics

for solving problems related to the structure and function of living
organisms.
Figure 1

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Mechanics - branch of physics that analyzes the actions of forces on
particles and mechanical systems
Dynamics -branch of mechanics dealing with systems subject to acceleration.
Statics - branch of mechanics dealing with systems in a constant state of motion
Kinematics - study of the description of motion, including considerations of space and time.
Involves the study of the size, sequencing, and timing of movement, without
reference
to the forces that cause or result from the motion.
Kinetics - study of the action of forces or the study of the forces associated with motion

Kinesiology - study of human movement.

Sports medicine - clinical and scientific aspects of sports and exercise. Sports medicine is an
umbrella term that encompasses both clinical and scienti fic aspects of exercise
and sport.

What’s More

Activity 1: The Hand Dynamometer Testing Your Grip

Strength
The Hand Dynamometer is used to measure the grip strength of a person’s
hand, often times to monitor the recovery rate after an injury (for example, a broken
arm). In this activity you will answer the following questions and we will use our own
hand dynamometers to measure and record our own grip strengths!

Now examine your own hand – feel the bone from the fingertip of your fingers, all
the way down to your wrist!

How many bones are there in each finger?

How many bones are there in your thumb?

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Examine the general shape of your hand, the veins and arteries that you can see below
your skin. Where are there muscles?

Where are there bones? Draw a hand shape in a bond paper and draw what you think is
on the inside of your hand:

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What I have learned

My Reflections

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 Assessment

At the end of this module, you will be assessed again to check

your knowledge about the concepts and information learned.

Directions: Identification. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

1. This is branch of physics that analyzes the actions of forces on

particles systems and mechanical

2. This is branch of mechanics dealing with systems in a constant state of

motion
3. This is the study of the actions of forces.
4 This involves the study of the size, sequencing, and timing of movement,
without reference to the forces
5. This study of human movement.

6. This encompasses the area of science concerned with the analysis

of the mechanics of human movement.
7. The clinical and scientific aspects of sports and exercise.
8. Bio means ?
9. This is branch of mechanics dealing with systems subject to acceleration

10. It is the science of explaining how and why the human body moves
in the way that it does.

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Pre-assesment/Assesment
1. a / Mechanics

2. f / Statics

3. c / Kinetics

4. d / Kinematics

5. i / Kinesiology

6. e / Sports and exercise

7. h / Sports Medicine

8. g / Life

9. b / Dynamics

10. j / Biomechanics