Document Type

Contribution to Book

Language

eng

Format of Original

55 p.

Publication Date

2-2012

Publisher

IGI Global

Source Publication

Handbook of Research on Biomedical Engineering Education and Advanced Bioengineering Learning: Interdisciplinary Concepts

Source ISSN

9781466601239

Original Item ID

doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0122-2.ch007

Abstract

Biomechanics is a vast discipline within the field of Biomedical Engineering. It explores the underlying mechanics of how biological and physiological systems move. It encompasses important clinical applications to address questions related to medicine using engineering mechanics principles. Biomechanics includes interdisciplinary concepts from engineers, physicians, therapists, biologists, physicists, and mathematicians. Through their collaborative efforts, biomechanics research is ever changing and expanding, explaining new mechanisms and principles for dynamic human systems. Biomechanics is used to describe how the human body moves, walks, and breathes, in addition to how it responds to injury and rehabilitation. Advanced biomechanical modeling methods, such as inverse dynamics, finite element analysis, and musculoskeletal modeling are used to simulate and investigate human situations in regard to movement and injury. Biomechanical technologies are progressing to answer contemporary medical questions. The future of biomechanics is dependent on interdisciplinary research efforts and the education of tomorrow’s scientists.

Comments

Published version. "Biomechanics," in Handbook of Research on Biomedical Engineering Education and Advanced Bioengineering Learning: Interdisciplinary Concepts. Eds. Ziad O. Abu-Faraj. Hershey, PA: Medical Information Science Reference, 2012, pp. 284-338. Permalink: www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63395. © 2012 Medical Information Science Reference (IGI Global). Used with permission.

Brooke A. Slavens was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee at the time of publication.

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