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    Biomechanics is the science that studies how living organisms move through the interaction of their bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments. It can be used to analyze human movement in sports, exercise and daily activities in order to prevent injuries from mistakes in form and enhance performance. Biomechanical analysis of joint movement and forces on the body can provide insights to improve safety and ability. It also informs the design of orthopedic implants by observing natural body motions.

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    Biomechanics is the science that studies how living organisms move through the interaction of their bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments. It can be used to analyze human movement in sports, exercise and daily activities in order to prevent injuries from mistakes in form and enhance performance. Biomechanical analysis of joint movement and forces on the body can provide insights to improve safety and ability. It also informs the design of orthopedic implants by observing natural body motions.

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    Biomechanics is the science that studies how living organisms move through the interaction of their bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments. It can be used to analyze human movement in sports, exercise and daily activities in order to prevent injuries from mistakes in form and enhance performance. Biomechanical analysis of joint movement and forces on the body can provide insights to improve safety and ability. It also informs the design of orthopedic implants by observing natural body motions.

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    Biomechanics is the science of the movements created by living organisms.

    It
    studies how the bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments work together to make a
    movement. It also includes some other body functions like blood circulation.
    Biomechanics helps in the orthopedic industry specifically in designs of implants for a
    person’s body that helps him in his/her movements. Biomechanics can also be a key in
    enhancing one’s performance. Because it focuses on the movements of living
    organisms like humans, biomechanics can determine the problems or mistakes in a
    person’s movement. Be it in sports, yoga, or a simple exercise, mistakes can be made
    resulting to improper workout which leads to body aches and such. Activities involving
    biomechanics can be applied here to prevent or lessen these mistakes and surely
    enhance a person’s physical performance.
    There are several biomechanical activities that can be used in observing a
    person’s movements. Simple biomechanical activities such as observing the forces
    applied on limbs, checking the proper motion of a person’s body parts during an activity,
    and locomotion in general can be used in simple daily activities like exercises. These
    biomechanical activities can help a person to do his/her task more safely and can also
    enhance some physical performances related to those activities. Much more extreme
    activities like sports or gymnastics really need biomechanics. These events cause more
    force on a person’s body participating them. Even a small mistake can lead to an injury.
    Biomechanics can prevent or lessen these mistakes to happen. Biomechanics in sports
    and gymnastics refers to giving more focus on the observations of a person’s body
    movement during an event. These includes how the person interacts with the
    instruments and other things or another person in the activity. Biomechanics here
    tackles how and why is a person creates his/her movements during a certain event.
    These observations are a huge help for the formulation of precautions and limits in a
    person’s movement during an event in sports or gymnastics. These can also be the
    keys to one’s performance to be boosted. Presence of biomechanics in sports leads to
    a much safer acts by the people involve in the activities and can also heighten their
    performances. Biomechanics can also be key to the production of implants involving
    body movements. Observation of how the muscles or ligaments move during a certain
    act can be used to analyze certain body functions that can be modified to an implant.
    This is so when the implants are used on a person, no errors will occur, and the person
    can create movements with the implant just like a normal body part. Biomechanics
    observed here can help in concluding a safer and functionable implant.
    In our daily lives, we move depending on what activities we are going to do.
    These movements we create can result in either good performance or can cause
    problems due to a simple mistake. Biomechanics helps us to prevent these mistakes.
    With several biomechanical activities done, our daily tasks can go swiftly and safely.
    Overall, biomechanics is applied to prevent or lessen mistakes, help in producing more
    functionable implants, and enhance a person’s performance.

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