Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Orthopedic Surgery, Anthropometry, Statics

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2241A/B
• Professor: Thomas Richard Jenkyn

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Biomechanics: application of physics to the understanding of the motions and deformations of body segments, organs, structures, tissues, cells due to forces, pressures, torques, shears etc, this is a wide definition. Linked rigid body biomechanics: we have to assume, that each segment is rigid, made of a block of wood, and is connected to another bone from a joint. If we look at the forearm, the forearm is not rigid because it can rotate: the bicep, upper arm is, the geometry of the upper arm is changing. We ignore this with linked rigic body mechanics. Next slide: can decide how this is, the foot is considered to be a single block of wood in his research, of course, it does not behave like this, as there are 26 bones in the foot. If you consider it to be a block of wood, you wont see these discrepancies, he breaks it up into 5 sections.