The Mechanobiology and Mechanophysiology of Military-Related Injuries (Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Book 19)

"This book provides a state-of-the-art update, as well as perspectives on future directions of research and clinical applications in the implementation of biomechanical and biophysical experimental, theoretical and computational models which are relevant to military medicine. Such experimental and modeling efforts are helpful, on the one hand, in understanding the aetiology, pathophysiology and dynamics of injury development and on the other hand in guiding the development of better equipment and protective gear or devices that should ultimately reduce the prevalence and incidence of injuries or lessen their hazardous effects. The book is useful for military-oriented biomedical engineers and medical physicists, as well as for military physiologists and other medical specialists who are interested in the science and technology implemented in modern investigations of military related injuries" -- OhioLink Library Catalog Front Matter....Pages i-viii Modeling Skeletal Injuries in Military Scenarios....Pages 3-35 Preventing Injuries Associated with Military Static-line Parachuting Landings....Pages 37-68 Biomechanics of Load Carriage....Pages 71-106 Load Carriage-Related Injury Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Prevention....Pages 107-137 Overuse Injuries in Military Personnel....Pages 141-161 The Mechanophysiololgy of Stress Fractures in Military Recruits....Pages 163-185 The Biomechanical Basis for Increased Risk of Overuse Musculoskeletal Injuries in Female Soldiers....Pages 187-206 Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military: Biomechanics and Finite Element Modelling....Pages 209-233 Biomechanics of Eye Injury in the Military....Pages 235-262 Modelling Human Heat Transfer and Temperature Regulation....Pages 265-302 Military Clothing and Protective Material: Protection at the Limits of Physiological Regulation....Pages 303-332 Back Matter....Pages 333-333 Amit Gefen, Yoram Epstein, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.