UK Biomechanics Courses

Cardiff MSc : well established 2 yr distance learning and part-taught course in Orthopaedic biomechanics (very popular).

Glasgow MSc/PgDip/Pg Cert: applied biomechanics for professionals involved in surgery, therapy, rehabilitation and sports medicine, by distance learning and part-taught course. 

Leeds : a 2 day intensive course on basic biomechanics.

Other allied courses: throughout UK: slow to load!

 

Biomech teaching site

ASBMR bone curriculum 

 

 

UK Biomechanics labs

Bath

Cardiff

Dundee

Glasgow

Leeds

London

Oxford

 

 

 

Biomechanics journals

Arthritis research & therapy: online open access journal

Biomechanics: online free biomechanics journal

Clinical Biomechanics

Gait and posture

Journal of Biomechanics

Journal of applied biomechanics

Sports Biomechanics

Spine

 

 

 

Biomechanics societies

American society of biomechanics

European society of biomechanics

International society of biomechanics

 

 

 

 

Biomechanics forum

Biomch-I-discussion forum:e-mail discussion group for  biomechanists worldwide.

MediTech network: University of Wales College of Medicine based biomedical research network

 

 

Biomaterials and implant

Advances in Prosthetic Implants             http://www.orthopedictechreview.com/issues/decjan00/pg18.htm

Biomaterials Properties Database, Biomaterials Properties Listing 

Biomedical Engineering @ Texas A& M University:

http://biomed.tamu.edu/biomaterials/Metals.htm

Case study of materials selection for total hip replacement 

Implants : Database of Resources   

Medical Plastics and Biomaterials

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Bone Cement; Guidance for Industry and FDA: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/guidance/668.html

UK Centre for Materials Education:  http://www.materials.ac.uk/resources/browse.asp?browseid=129 

 

 

Useful sites on gait analysis

Abnormal gait analysis

Clinical gait analysis

Dr. Steven Pribut's sport pages

eMedicine

McGill Gait disorder project

 

 

 

 

Related orthopaedic sites

OWL: orthopaedic web link, directory of orthopaedic sites on the net

Orthoteers: online subscription based orthopaedic teaching site , useful for FRCS(Orth). It also has good information on biomechanics.

 

 

 

Useful resource page

High wire press: Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries. It has free access to full text of all high - wire hosted journals.

MedHunt: search engine of health related webpages  subscribing to Health on the Net (HON) code.

OMNI: University of Nottingham based searchable catalogue of peer reviewed internet resources in Health and Medicine.

Science Direct: massive electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information from Elsevier Science. Requires ATHENS log in.

SCIRUS: science specific search engine on the Internet.

Web of Science: abstracts of journal articles and conference papers. Requires ATHENS log in.

 

 

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