13 Facts About Biomechanics

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Biomechanics is the study of the structure, function and motion of the mechanical aspects of biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to organs, cells and cell organelles, using the methods of mechanics.

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Biomechanics contributed to mechanics and military and civil engineering projects.

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Biomechanics had a great understanding of science and mechanics and studied anatomy in a mechanics context.

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Biomechanics analyzed muscle forces and movements and studied joint functions.

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Biomechanics analyzed muscle forces as acting along lines connecting origins and insertions, and studied joint function.

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Biomechanics found that the professors could not prove what they taught so he moved onto mathematics where everything had to be proven.

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Biomechanics was a very good lecturer and students would leave their other instructors to hear him speak, so he was forced to resign.

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Biomechanics then became a professor at an even more prestigious school in Padua.

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Biomechanics noted that animals' bone masses increased disproportionately to their size.

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Biomechanics could determine the position of the human center of gravity, calculate and measure inspired and expired air volumes, and he showed that inspiration is muscle-driven and expiration is due to tissue elasticity.

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Biomechanics's work is often considered the most important in the history of bio-mechanics because he made so many new discoveries that opened the way for the future generations to continue his work and studies.

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Biomechanics opened the field of modern 'motion analysis' by being the first to correlate ground reaction forces with movement.

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Biomechanics is widely used in orthopedic industry to design orthopedic implants for human joints, dental parts, external fixations and other medical purposes.

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