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A Moment for Biomechanics

To the Editor:

As an engineer and physiologist who has been active in the teaching and research of biomechanics for over two decades, I read with interest your December 1984 special issue on biomechanics. I was aware of some of the individual contributions to this issue and commend your efforts to upgrade American physical therapists' understanding of biomechanics.

I would like to write this letter with a view to correcting two of the questions addressed by authors in that special issue. The first, a minor semantics question, deals with the relation of kinesiology to biomechanics, which I believe was not clarified correctly by several authors. The second and major criticism deals with one paper that presents what I believe is a totally incorrect biomechanical technique that appears to be accepted by most of your readership. On this latter question, I refer only to existing published papers and to the basic laws of mechanics.

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