This custom ebook features select chapters from
Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement, Third Edition.
Audience
Custom ebook for students taking the course Movement Assessment and
Exercise Prescription at the University of Waterloo.
Duane V. Knudson, PhD, is a professor of biomechanics in the
department of health and human performance at Texas State University. He
earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin and has held tenured
positions at three universities.
Knudson's research areas are the biomechanics of tennis, stretching,
qualitative movement diagnosis, and learning biomechanical concepts. He
has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 14 chapters.
Knudson is the author of Biomechanical Principles of Tennis Technique
(2006), Fundamentals of Biomechanics, Second Edition (2007), Qualitative
Diagnosis of Human Movement, Third Edition (2013), and he is the
coauthor of Introduction to Kinesiology, Fifth Edition (2018). He
has received numerous regional, state, national, and international
awards for his scholarship and has been elected a fellow of three
scholarly societies. He has served as a department chair, as an
associate dean, as president of the American Kinesiology Association, as
vice president of publications for the International Society of
Biomechanics in Sports, and in numerous other professional leadership
roles.