Forces and Motion
A push or pull acting on an object.
What is force?
This career is concerned with movements in the work place.
What is a occupational biomechanist?
This man is considered by some to be the founder of biomechanics.
Who is Alfonso Borelli?
This is the analysis of how humans walk.
What is human gait?
These two questions are considered the biggest questions in human movement biomechanics.
Why do people move the way they do? and Is there a best technique for performing a given movement?
The rate at which an object changes position.
What is velocity?
This career field is concerned with the movements in athletics specific to athlete's performance and rehab.
What is a Sports Biomechanist?
Who is Ruth Glassow?
A MEMS, Mocap or digital high speed camera is an example of this.
What are motion measurement devices?
These 5 categories help us understand "how we move"
Task, performer goal, performer characteristics, environment, and laws of nature.
The rate of change of velocity.
What is acceleration?
This career field is concerned with movements made in a crime scene or other investigations.
What is a Forensic Biomechanist?
In this decade biomechanics began to get established as a scholarly area and a recognized sub-discipline for university Kinesiology programs.
What is the 1960's?
Force transducers and force platforms are examples of this.
What are force measurement devices?
Understanding the biomechanics of tissue health and safety can help patients manage OA and continue to live a healthy life or compete in sports at a their middle age. What does OA stand for?
What is Osteoarthritis?
A force that resists motion between two surfaces in contact.
What is friction?
This career field is concerned with the bodily movements specific to the bones and muscles of the musculoskeletal system.
What is a Orthopedic biomechanist?
Who is Fredrick Winslow Taylor?
This device is used to measure electrical forces on or in muslces.
What is an EMG (electromyography)
What is Ground Reaction Force?
The quantity of motion an object has, equal to mass × velocity.
What is momentum?
This career field is concerned with the movements of the mouth and teeth.
What is a Dental Biomechanist?
Thanks to "Taylorism's" influence in Russia, this man was perhaps the first to use the term biomechanics
Who is Vsevolod Meyerhold?
Why do linemen in football bend their knees and widen their stance before contact?
What is to increase stability and resist force?
In Aisha's case of wanting to stay active but manage her OA, this option is used on her foot so that vertical GRF does not damager her tissue in her knee.
What is striking the ground with her heel rather than her forefoot?