PHTY20020

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Apply the principles of mechanics to a number of situations specialised to the human body; 2. Discuss, at an intermediate level, knowledge of both solid and fluid viscoelasticity and the physical properties of bone, cartilage and muscle; 3. Discuss, at an intermediate level lumbar and cervical spinal mechanics and mechanisms of injury; 4. Discuss, at an intermediate level hip joint mechanics, and premature cartilage degeneration including FAIS; 5. Discuss, at an intermediate level the flexor-pulley system of the hand ; 6. Discuss, at an intermediate level, common car accidents,, their physical consequences, and injury prevention; 7. Discuss, at an intermediate level, a knowledge of human motion analysis equipment, and 8. Discuss, at an intermediate level, normal human gait development and the kinematic and kinetic characteristics of gait.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Lectures with supplementary information online in the VLE.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Requirements:

Students must have one of the prerequisite modules indicated

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Pre-requisite:
PHTY10080 - Applied Physics Principles, PHYC10120 - Physics in Medicine, PHYC10150 - Physics for Engineers I

Additional Information:
Students must have any one or other of the above listed prerequisites.


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

The provisional (indicative) grade of the Brightspace ICA MCQ quiz will be automatically indicated by Brightspace on submission of the quiz by the student. The anonymous grade profile histogram of the provisional quiz results for all students will be posted in Brightspace as soon as possible thereafter, in order that students may see their standing relative to other students in the class. If possible, the histogram is intended to be posted in Brightspace prior to the end of trimester written exam.

Essential
Low J, and Reed A. (1996) Basic biomechanics explained. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. ISBN 978-0750621038

Nordin M, and Frankel VH (2012) Basic biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. 4th Ed. / [edited by] Margareta Nordin, Victor H. Frankel. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, London. ISBN 978-1451117097

Whittle’s Gait analysis, 5 th Ed. (2012) Churchill Livingstone, ISBN-13: 9780702042652

Norkin C, and White J (2016) Measurement of joint motion : a guide to goniometry. 5th Ed. Davis. Philadelphia ISBN-0803658478


Suggested
Mow VC, & Huiskes R (2005) Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano-Biology, Wolters Kluwer http://library.ucd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2301328?lang=eng

Hamill J, Knutzen K, & Derrick TR (2014) Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement 4 th Ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ISBN-13: 9781451194043

Winter, DA (2009) Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement, 4 th Ed., John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978- 0470398180

Low J, Reed A (1996) Basic biomechanics explained. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. ISBN 978-0750621038

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