Course topics
- Overview of the musculoskeletal system
- Review of musculoskeletal anatomy
- Kinematics and loads
- Tissue mechanics
- Bone
- Tendons and ligaments
- Muscle
- Articular cartilage
- Intervertebral Disc
- Bio-compatible materials
- Contact stress
- Symmetric and unsymmetric beams
- Bending
- Tension and compression
- Torsion
- Orthopaedic and biomechanical literature; statistics and levels of evidence
- Design of experiments
- Special topics in orthopaedic biomechanics