Biomechanics Flashcards
Why study biomechanics?
Look at diagram on page 2 of notes
- AT, OT, PT students will benefit from learning biomechanics because it will help in:
- Determining the cause of injury
- Aid in preventing future injury
- Guide in determining best methods for rehabilitation
Why study Biomechanics?
- Traditional teaching and coaching methods tell you what techniques to teach.
- Biomechanics tells you why those techniques are best to teach
- Tells you why some teaching and coaching techniques don’t work and need to be discontinued
Why study biomechanics?
- Exercise science students will learn the best techniques for improving fitness and enhancing exercise performance
- Technique Improvement
- Improve current technique
- Develop new technique
- Equipment Improvement
- Shoes and apparel
- Implements
- Protection devices
- Training Improvement
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Techniques
Why study biomechanics?
- To understand how people move…normal gait patterns
- Back in the day… They viewed people running naked to see all the muscles in the body and took pictures at different stances
Why study biomechanics?
- To understand how people move…normal gait patterns.
- Today… They have video cameras that are set up all around a force plate where they can measure how much pressure you are exerting on your feet and where the pressure is located and the cameras can capture any part of the person’s running form.
Why study biomechanics?
- To understand how people move…
- To enhance skill performance for all individuals
- Physical challenges
- ACL deficit
- Cap gait
- Wheelchair
- Age-related disease
What are the 9 areas of study, research, and careers?
- Sport and Exercise Science
- Coaching
- Ergonomics
- Equipment Design
- Gait & Locomotion
- Orthopedics-Rehabilitation
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy - Prosthetics and Orthotics
- Motor Control
- Computer Simulation
What is the introduction to biomechanics?
- During the past decade the term BIOMECHANICS has emerged as an area of inquiry in the sport science domain;
- Clinical Biomechanics
- The application of biomechanics to the treatment of patients
- Sports Biomechanics
- The study and analyses of human movement patterns in sport
- Biomechanics Engineering
- The application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (diagnostic or therapeutic)
What is Biomechanics?
- Biomechanics: Bio=Living
- Mechanics = Forces & Effects
- The application of mechanics to the living organism
- The study of forces and segment movement as they relate to human movement
- Combines engineering with anatomy and physiology
- Two divisions
1. Kinematics
2. Kinetics
What is Kinematics?
- The branch of mechanics that describes the motion of objects
- The description of movement related to
- Displacement
- Velocity
- Acceleration - Can be described in two dimensions (plantar motion) and three dimensions (spatial motion).
What are some of the basic Kinematic terms?
Units of kinematic measurement
- Displacement
- Velocity
- Acceleration
What is displacement of the basic kinematic terms?
- Change in position (meters, degrees)
- Example: 123 degrees knee flexion active range of motion is a measure of angular displacement
What is velocity of the basic kinematic terms?
- Rate at which an object moves in a given direction (meters/second)
- change position/change time
- Has a directional component, speed does not
What is acceleration of the basic kinematic terms?
- The rate of change of velocity with respect to time (m/s squared)
- Change velocity/ change time
What is linear Kinematic?
- Occurs when all points move equidistant in the same direction, at the same time
- Can occur in a straight line (rectilinear) or with curvature (curvilinear).
What is Angular Kinematics?
- Occurs when an object moves along a circular path
- AKA rotation (clockwise or counter-clockwise)
- Measure in degrees or radians
What is Kinetics?
- The branch of mechanics used to describe motion in terms of force
- Newtons three laws of motion form the basis for kinetics
- Basic Kinetic Terms
- Mass
- Inertia
- Momentum
What is mass?
- The amount of matter that makes up an object
- The greater the mass, he harder the object is to move
- Measured in pounds (lbs.) or kilograms (kg.)
- Different from weight