Week 1: Introductory Mechanics – Statics and Dynamics – Basic Principles.
Week 2: The human body as a biomechanical system – basic terminologies
Week 3: Kinematics of muscles and joints - free-body diagrams and equilibrium, forces and stresses in joints
Week 4: Biomechanical analysis of joints of upper limb - Shoulder, Elbow, wrist, hand and fingers
Week 5: Upper limb as a mechanical system – analysis of reaching as movement of a multi-link serial chain – forward kinematics, analysis of fingertip forces as a parallel manipulator
Week 6: Biomechanical analysis of joints – Spine, Hip, Knee, Ankle.
Week 7: Introduction to Postural stability and Gait analysis.
Week 8: Gait analysis in health and disease - basics.
Week 9: Mechanics of Hard Tissues - Definition of Stress and Strain, Deformation Mechanics, structure and mechanical properties of bone - cortical and cancellous bones, Wolff’s law of bone remodeling;
Week 10: Soft Tissues - Structure, functions, material properties – tendon function, elasticity in a tendon, models of non-linear elasticity in a tendon – physiological and non-physiological regimes, Davis’ law of soft tissue remodeling.
Week 11: Visco-elastic properties of soft tissues, Models of visco-elasticity: Maxwell & Voight models.
Week 12: Basic Biofluid mechanics - Flow properties of blood in the intact human cardiovascular system.
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