Abstract
Blast injuries induce a mechanical insult to the human body at all levels. The study of the mechanics of biological systems is called biomechanics. This chapter starts at a foundational level to briefly summarise the fundamental physics of mechanics and then how to apply that to the human body through an understanding of functional anatomy and musculoskeletal dynamics.
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Bull, A.M.J. (2022). Biomechanics in Blast. In: Bull, A.M.J., Clasper, J., Mahoney, P.F. (eds) Blast Injury Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10355-1_3
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