Floyd Manual of Structural Kinesiology 19e Table of Contents Contents Preface About the Author Dedication Chapter 1 Foundations of Structural Kinesiology Chapter 2 Neuromuscular Fundamentals Chapter 3 Basic Biomechanical Factors and Concepts Chapter 4 The Shoulder Girdle Chapter 5 The Shoulder Joint Chapter 6 The Elbow and Radioulnar Joints Chapter 7 The Wrist and Hand Joints Chapter 8 Muscular Analysis of Upper-Extremity Exercises Chapter 9 The Hip Joint and Pelvic Girdle Chapter 10 The Knee Joint Chapter 11 The Ankle and Foot Joints Chapter 12 The Trunk and Spinal Column Chapter 13 Muscular Analysis of Trunk and Lower-Extremity Exercises Appendix Glossary Illustration credits Index
R.T. Floyd is in his forth-sixth year of providing athletic
training services for the University of West Alabama. Currently, he
serves as the Director of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine for
the UWA Athletic Training and Sports Medicine Center, Program
Director for UWA's CAATE accredited curriculum, and as a
distinguished professor in the Department of Physical Education and
Athletic Training, which he chairs. He also serves as chair of the
recently established School of Health Sciences and Human
Performance. He has taught numerous courses in physical education,
exercise science and athletic training, including kinesiology, at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels since 1980.
Floyd has maintained an active professional life throughout his
career. In 2017, he completed two terms as President of the
National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Research & Education
Foundation after serving in multiple roles on the Board of
Directors since 2002. He previously finished eight years of service
on the NATA Board of Directors representing District IX, the
Southeast Athletic Trainers' Association (SEATA). Previously, he
served as the District IX representative to the NATA Educational
Multimedia Committee from 1988 to 2002. He has served as the
Convention Site Selection Chair for District IX from 1986 to 2004
and has directed the annual SEATA Competencies in Athletic Training
Student Workshop since 1997. He has also served as a NATA BOC
examiner for well over a decade and has served as a Joint Review
Committee on Educational Programs in Athletic Training site visitor
several times. He has provided over a hundred professional
presentations at the local, state, regional, and national levels
and has published several articles and videos related to the
practical aspects of athletic training. He began authoring the
Manual of Structural Kinesiology in 1992 with the twelfth edition
after the passing of Dr. Clem W. Thompson, who authored the fourth
through the eleventh editions. In 2010, much of the content of this
text was incorporated into Kinesiology for Manual Therapies, which
he co-authored with Nancy Dail and Tim Agnew.
Floyd is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers'
Association, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and a
Certified Personal Trainer in the National Strength and
Conditioning Association. He is also a member of the American
College of Sports Medicine, the American Orthopaedic Society for
Sports Medicine, the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports
Medicine, the American Sports Medicine Fellowship Society, SHAPE
America, and the Athletic Equipment Managers' Association.
Additionally, he is licensed in Alabama as an Athletic Trainer and
an Emergency Medical Technician.
Floyd was presented the NATA Athletic Trainer Service Award in
1996, the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award by the NATA in
2003, and received the NATA Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished
Educator Award in 2007. In 2013 he was inducted into the NATA Hall
of Fame. He received the District IX Award for Outstanding
Contribution to the field of Athletic Training by SEATA in 1990 and
the Award of Merit in 2001 before being inducted into the
organization's Hall of Fame in 2008. In 1997, the UWA Faculty and
Board of Trustees recognized Floyd for outstanding achievement in
scholarship, teaching, and leadership by presenting him with a
Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Professorship. In 2001, he was
induced into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and the University
of West Alabama Athletic Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the
Alabama Athletic Trainers' Association Hall of Fame in May 2004. In
2012, he was presented the Great Minds Award by the UWA Phi Kappa
Phi Honor Society and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence
Award by UWA. In 2014, he was inducted into the Society of the
Golden Key at UWA and was selected as the first recipient of the
UWA Distinguished Professorship. Upon completion of its expansion
in 2014, the athletic training facility was named the R.T. Floyd
Athletic Training and Sports Medicine Center by the UWA Board of
Trustees. In 2018, he received the NATA Research and Education
Foundation Lifetime Contribution Award.
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