KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Body Composition, Electrocardiography, Kymograph
29 Mar 2016
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Logia = study: the study of human movement, biomechanics. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health . Aristotle (the father of kinesiology) 350 b. c. If walking does not produce better health, then walking would be in vain. : he instructed students while walking around. Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness . 1737 luigi galvani discovers electricity stimulates muscle contraction. 1847 - carl ludwig invented the kymograph to non-invasively measure human blood pressure. 1887 - augustus desir waller records the electrical activity of the human heart (ekg). 1920 - archibald v. hill describes maximal oxygen uptake (vo2 max) and investigates heat production in muscle (nobel prize). Huxley theorizes about muscle cross-bridges in contraction and discovered the basis of nerve action potentials (nobel prize)
