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Learn about a method and language for describing, visualizing, interpreting and documenting human movement based on Rudolf Laban's work. Explore the categories of body, effort, shape and space, and their subcategories and combinations.
Kinesiology is the interdisciplinary field that applies various sciences to understand and improve human movement, performance, and function. It covers topics such as biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor control, skill acquisition, rehabilitation, and sport psychology.
A cortical homunculus is a distorted representation of the human body based on brain areas dedicated to motor or sensory functions. Learn about the types, arrangement, discovery, and representation of the motor and sensory homunculi, and their history and research.
Learn the anatomical terms of motion, such as flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction, and how they describe the movement of body parts. Abduction is the motion of a structure away from the midline of the body, while adduction is the motion towards the midline.
Motor coordination is the orchestrated movement of multiple body parts to achieve intended actions. Learn about its properties, such as large degrees of freedom and complexity, and its types, such as inter-limb, intra-limb, and eye-hand coordination.
The human musculoskeletal system, also known as the human locomotor system, is the organ system that gives humans the ability to move using their muscular and skeletal systems. It consists of bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that support, stabilize, and enable movement of the body.
Fly is a strength training exercise that involves moving the arms through an arc while the elbow is kept constant. Learn about different types of fly exercises, such as chest fly, inverted fly and shoulder fly, and how they work the muscles of the upper body.
Dalcroze eurhythmics is a method of teaching music through movement, developed by Swiss musician Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in the early 20th century. It aims to enhance rhythmic awareness, musical expression and understanding, and can be applied to various age groups and settings.