Biotensegrity
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Biotensegrity

The Structural Basis of Life

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Biotensegrity

The Structural Basis of Life

About this book

The emerging science of biotensegrity provides a fresh context for rethinking our understanding of human movement, but its complexities can be formidable. Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life, Second edition - now with full color illustrations throughout - explores and explains the concept of biotensegrity and provides an understanding and appreciation of anatomy and physiology in the light of the latest research findings.

The reader learns that biotensegrity is an evolving science which gives researchers, teachers, and practitioners across a wide range of specialisms, including bodyworkers and movement teachers, a deeper understanding of the structure and function of the human body. They are then able to develop clinical practice and skills in light of this understanding, leading to more effective therapeutic approaches, with the aim of improved client outcomes.

The second edition provides expanded coverage of the developmental and therapeutic aspects of biotensegrity. Coverage now includes:

    • A more thorough look at life's internal processes
    • Closed kinematic chains as the new biomechanics
    • Embryological development as an evolutionary process
    • The human body as a constantly evolving system based on a set of unchanging principles
    • Emergence, heterarchies, soft-matter and small-world networks
    • A deeper look at what constitutes the therapeutic process

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword to first edition
  6. Foreword by Stephen M. Levin
  7. Foreword by John Sharkey
  8. Preface and Acknowledgments
  9. Glossary
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1 • Tensegrity
  12. Chapter 2 • Simple geometry in complex organisms
  13. Chapter 3 • The balance of unseen forces
  14. Chapter 4 • The problem with mechanics
  15. Chapter 5 • The autonomous cell
  16. Chapter 6 • The twist in the tale
  17. Chapter 7 • The ease of motion
  18. Chapter 8 • The ‘hard’ and the ‘soft’
  19. Chapter 9 • A closer look
  20. Chapter 10 • ‘Complex’ patterns in biology
  21. Chapter 11 • Biotensegrity: a rational approach to biomechanics
  22. Chapter 12 • Biotensegrity: the structural basis of life
  23. Appendix 1 • Tensegrity models
  24. Appendix 2 • Muscle volume and crossed helical fiber angle
  25. Appendix 3 • The questionable hydrostat
  26. Appendix 4 • The avian lung
  27. Appendix 5 • Closed-chain kinematics and embryological development
  28. Figure sources and permissions
  29. References
  30. Index