Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World, September 1st, 2003
Biomechanics means different things to different groups. To rehabilitation engineers, biomechanics means gate analysis, impact forces, and other measurements to help overcome the consequences of aging, pre-existing conditions, or accidental injuries. To sports medicine specialists, it means forces, moments, and reaction forces--how small changes in training protocols can produce better athletes. To ergonomicists, it means comparisons of work, oxygen consumption, and heat production associated with performance of everyday tasks to under stand energy consumptions. To pulmonary function technic...
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