Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year
BASI MORFOLOGICHE E FUNZIONALI
Teaching Staff
GUIDO LA ROSA - Module Biomechanics - ING-IND/34 - 2 CFUOffice: Viale A. Doria, 6 Ed. Polifunzionale 6° piano
Phone: 0957382413
Office Hours: mercoledì 15.00-16.00, martedì 10.00-12.00
Office: Clinica Ortopedica Ospedale Vittorio Emanuele di Catania
Phone: 3403723406
Office Hours: lunedi 12.00 - 14.00 previo contatto telefonico
Office: Comparto 10, Ed A, Via S. Sofia n° 87, 95123, Catania
Phone: 0953782043
Office Hours: Dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 10 alle 12, previo avviso tramite email.
Learning Objectives
- Biomechanics
Provide the basics of biomechanics to understand the actions of external forces and internal forces on the musculo-skeletal structure.
Acquire a basic grounding about the staying power of materials and biological tissues.
Detailed Course Content
- Biomechanics
Forces and moments. Forces composition. Biomechanical applications.
Equilibrium conditions. Constraint reactions. Biomechanical applications.
Internal forces. Shear and moment digrams. Biomechanical applications.
Linear elasticity. Hooke’s law. Elastic properties of the materials. Stress and strain. Biomechanical applications.
Tensile-compressive loading, shear loading, flexural loading, torsional loading. Normal and tangential stresses produced by the various loading forces. Biomechanical applications.
Cyclical stresses. Fatigue of the materials.
Viscoelastic roperties of the materials. Wear.
Textbook Information
- Biomechanics
1. R. Pietrabissa: Biomateriali per protesi ed organi artificiali. Patron. Bologna, 1996.
2. B.F. LeVeau: Biomeccanica del movimento umano. Verduci Ed., 1993.
3. Course notes.
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