The Mechanobiology and Mechanophysiology of Military-Related Injuries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Modeling Skeletal Injuries in Military Scenarios

   • Reuben H. Kraft, Rebecca A. Fielding, Kevin Lister, Allen Shirley, Tim Marler, Andrew C. Merkle et al.

   Pages 3-35

3. Preventing Injuries Associated with Military Static-line Parachuting Landings

   • Julie R. Steele, Karen J. Mickle, John W. Whitting

   Pages 37-68

4. Biomechanics of Load Carriage

   • Joseph F. Seay

   Pages 71-106

5. Load Carriage-Related Injury Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Prevention

   • Joseph J. Knapik, Katy Reynolds

   Pages 107-137

6. Overuse Injuries in Military Personnel

   • Jay R. Hoffman, David D. Church, Mattan W. Hoffman

   Pages 141-161

7. The Mechanophysiololgy of Stress Fractures in Military Recruits

   • Amir Hadid, Yoram Epstein, Nogah Shabshin, Amit Gefen

   Pages 163-185

8. The Biomechanical Basis for Increased Risk of Overuse Musculoskeletal Injuries in Female Soldiers

   • Ran Yanovich, Yuval Heled, Julie Hughes

   Pages 187-206

9. Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military: Biomechanics and Finite Element Modelling

   • Rinat Friedman, Yoram Epstein, Amit Gefen

   Pages 209-233

10. Biomechanics of Eye Injury in the Military

    • Brittany Coats, Daniel F. Shedd

    Pages 235-262

11. Modelling Human Heat Transfer and Temperature Regulation

    • Dusan Fiala, George Havenith

    Pages 265-302

12. Military Clothing and Protective Material: Protection at the Limits of Physiological Regulation

    • Nigel A.S. Taylor, Mark J. Patterson

    Pages 303-332

13. Back Matter

    Pages 333-333

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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.

• Achial Plexus Palsy
• Backpack Carriage
• Blast Trauma
• Body Phantoms
• Bulletproof Vest Design
• High-speed Tissue Testing
• Hyperthermia, Thermoregulation
• Injury Biomechanics
• Military Medicine
• Stress Fractures
• Trauma Surgery

• Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

  Amit Gefen, Yoram Epstein

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