Yinka Ogunbiyi has secured funding for her device, which is poised to transform the professional hair-braiding industry.

"In our biomechanical tests, the femur performed as well as a human femur." Dr. Weinschenk, who specializes in musculoskeletal oncology, and study co-author Richard Samade, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant ...

Scientists have known for decades that electrical signals send messages to cells to tell our bodies what to do. New research published by teams in a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative ...

BME 465 is designed to familiarize the student with the development, application, and analysis of biomechanical models to simulate motion and orient the graduate student to the skill sets necessary to ...

The biomechanical and metabolic effects of lower limb prostheses and exoskeletons on walking, running, hopping, jumping, bicycling, and sprinting. The requirements for undergraduate students who would ...

(Phys.org) -- Two swimming strokes -- one that pulls through the water like a boat paddle and another that whirls to the side like a propeller -- are commonly used by athletes training for the Olympic ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael A Hunt, Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, 212-2177 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3; michael.hunt{at}ubc.ca ...

The purpose of this study was to compare some biomechanical variables of decathletes and world class sprinters while running the 100 metre race. Sixteen Swiss national decathletes and three world ...