Chapters authored
Theoretical Biomechanics: Design of the Associated Measurement Symmetry System
Based on the own experience of the authors and the literature, an original proposition of the device and system software based on the quotient scale was presented, where the mutual relations of parameters from several or several simultaneously working measuring devices are easily visible on a common graph in real time. The project is connected with an outline of problems of musculoskeletal system diagnostics, aiming at creating a universal, systemic parametric graph, defining in parallel-multi-parametric and quantitative manner, the patient’s initial health profile as a set of parametric symmetries (or asymmetries), having specific and separate characteristics for healthy individuals in all age groups, as well as in groups with specific disease units. The directional pattern for Authors, aiming at the systemic recognition of the causative phenomena and the consequences of motion in the form of a multi-parameter graph calibrated by a common time axis is the way of electrode location, recording and parameterization of the ECG curve. This universal formula, defining parametrically the problems of evolutionary and involutionary norms, as well as most known pathologies, has become the foundation of cardiology, functioning worldwide over the language barrier.
Part of the book: Recent Advances in Biomechanics
Biomechanics as an Element of the Motion Clinimetry System
The study highlights the great progress in medicine, currently capable of a criterial, qualitative diagnosis of an increasing number of primary and secondary diseases in the musculoskeletal system, regardless persistent obstacles to a credible, systemic, and quantitative evaluation of the extent of existing motion dysfunctions, as well as subjective dimension of patient’s suffering. It is worth to add that only parametric estimation of a qualitative dysfunction profile makes it possible to reliably monitor treatment efficiency and forecast the level of health damage after its termination. The essence of biomechanics, understood as a science describing internal and external forces’ vectors, which determine specific, dynamic motion models (especially for balance and gait), has been presented in the study. Special attention has been given to anthropomotorics and psychomotorics, which give a broader context to motion’s driving phenomena and consequences, thus offering a variety of new parameters that have not been considered in close relation to motion so far. While developing symmetry concept, it was pointed out that dysfunction profile comprises of sequences of parametric asymmetries registered in twin body markers.
Part of the book: Recent Advances in Biomechanics