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Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
This note introduces the student to the fundamental tools, techniques, and concepts employed in musculoskeletal biomechanics research. Topics covered includes: History of Biomechanics, Viscoelasticity, Joint Coordinate Systems, Cell Mechanics, Bone, Muscle, Joints, Spine, Hip, Shoulder, and Elbow.
Author(s): Randy Ching and Bil Ledoux
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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.
Author(s): Vaclav Klika
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Introduction to the Biomechanics of Human Movement
This note introduce the scientific principles and laws underlying the field of biomechanics and describes how biomechanical principles can be applied to understanding and analyzing the causes of human movements and their affects on the body. Topics covered includes: Statics, Gravity and Forces, Levers and Moments of Force, Dry Friction, Kinematics, Kinetics, Impulse and Momentum, Work, Energy and Power, Fluid Mechanics, Gait Analysis.
Author(s): D. Gordon E. Robertson
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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.
Author(s): Vaclav Klika
414 Pages
This note introduces the student to the fundamental tools, techniques, and concepts employed in musculoskeletal biomechanics research. Topics covered includes: History of Biomechanics, Viscoelasticity, Joint Coordinate Systems, Cell Mechanics, Bone, Muscle, Joints, Spine, Hip, Shoulder, and Elbow.
Author(s): Randy Ching and Bil Ledoux
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Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
This course develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales. This lecture note explains the following topics: structure of tissues and the molecular basis for macroscopic properties, chemical and electrical effects on mechanical behavior, cell mechanics, motility and adhesion, biomembranes, biomolecular mechanics and molecular motors. Experimental methods for probing structures at the tissue, cellular, and molecular levels will also be investigated.
Author(s): Prof. Roger D. Kamm, Prof. Patrick Doyle and Maxine Jonas
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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
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