Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics Lecture notes
Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics Lecture notes
Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics Lecture notes
This lecture note develops and applies scaling laws
and the methods of continuum and statistical mechanics to biomechanical
phenomena over a range of length scales, from molecular to cellular to tissue or
organ level.
Author(s): Prof. Roger Kamm
and Prof. Alan Grodzinsky
This PDF covers the following topics
related to Biomechanics in Sport : Muscle Action in Sport and Exercise,
Locomotion, Jumping and Aerial Movement, Throwing and Hitting, Injury Prevention
and Rehabilitation, Special Olympic Sports.
This book focuses on experimental
praxis and clinical findings. The first section is devoted to Injury and
clinical biomechanics including overview of the biomechanics of musculoskeletal
injury, distraction osteogenesis in mandible, or consequences of drilling. The
next section is on Spine biomechanics with biomechanical models for upper limb
after spinal cord injury and an animal model looking at changes occurring as a
consequence of spinal cord injury. Section Musculoskeletal Biomechanics includes
the chapter which is devoted to dynamical stability of lumbo-pelvi-femoral
complex which involves analysis of relationship among appropriate anatomical
structures in this region. The fourth section is on Human and Animal
Biomechanics with contributions from foot biomechanics and chewing rhythms in
mammals, or adaptations of bats.
The first section of the book, General
notes on biomechanics and mechanobiology, comprises from theoretical
contributions to Biomechanics often providing hypothesis or rationale for a
given phenomenon that experiment or clinical study cannot provide. It deals with
mechanical properties of living cells and tissues, mechanobiology of fracture
healing or evolution of locomotor trends in extinct terrestrial giants. The
second section, Biomechanical modelling, is devoted to the rapidly growing field
of biomechanical models and modelling approaches to improve our understanding
about processes in human body.
This lecture note develops and applies scaling laws
and the methods of continuum and statistical mechanics to biomechanical
phenomena over a range of length scales, from molecular to cellular to tissue or
organ level.
Author(s): Prof. Roger Kamm
and Prof. Alan Grodzinsky
This is a landmark
book because it shows the usefulness and importance of mechanics in the analysis
and understanding of animal behavior. As such it should be of interest and use
to individuals working in biomechanics as well as to the vertebrate zoologist
and comparative anatomist.
This
is a comprehensive, state-of-the-science resource concerning the principles and
applications of biomechanics at every level. The book is organized in a
systematic manner, the book begins with coverage of musculoskeletal mechanics
including hard- and soft tissue and joint mechanics and their applications to
human function.