Classic Papers, Videos, and References
On this page you will find a series of papers, videos, links, and references related to biomechanics or concepts important to understanding biomechanics.
Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury – Videos
- Kevin Everett Neck Injury
- Eric LeGrand Neck Injury
- Jack Tatum paralyzes Darryl Stingley – Darryl Stingley was an All-American receiver at Purdue University before he joined the Patriots.
Hertz Contact Theory
Ballistics
Human Performance
- TED TALK by David Epstein – This is a great one!
- Funny and thought provoking – SNL Weekend Update: All Drug Olympics
JFK Assassination
- US News and World Report – Not a great copy, but a good article.
- Movie made by Exponent – Nice graphics. Gives a good sense of the orientation and location of everything.
Basic Anatomy
Spine
Interesting and Infamous
Anthropometric Data
Pitching Motion Data
Running Data
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Permeability in Biological Tissues
- Fluid conductance and host acceptance in cancellous bone grafts: Hui_Sher_Bone_Fluid_Conductance_1996
- Review of tissue permeability: Sander_permeability_review_2003
Sensitivity Analysis in Biomechanics
- Tremendous review paper: Cook_sensitivity_analysis_review_2014
- Sensitivity in the vocal folds: Cook_Ranking_Frequencies_2009
- Modeling the microvasculature – part 1: Schuff_Mixtures_1_JMB_2012
- Modeling the microvasculature – part 2 (sensitivity in depth): Schuff_Mixtures_2_JMB_2012
- Sensitivity in bone stress prediction (overturned a lot of previous work): Yang_micro_CT_FEA_2014