**Meet the editor**

Dr Tarun Goswami is a professor of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, and Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation at Wright State University, Dayton, OH. Prior to joining WSU, he was an Associate Professor and Chairman of Mechanical Engineering Department, at Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. Dr. Goswami has diverse research interests

in orthopaedic biomechanics, biomaterials, medical devices, and developing new bio-markers to predict various medical conditions. He has active grants from U.S. Air Force and Army. He has published more than 80 articles in archival journals and over 100 presentations, posters, and articles in the proceedings. All his degrees are mechanical engineering, earning a D.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Motion Preservation 1** 

Chapter 2 **Locomotion Transition Scheme** 

Andrzej Mroczkowski

Chapter 3 **Using the Knowledge of** 

Orlin Filipov

Chapter 1 **The Women's Pelvic Floor Biomechanics 3** 

**of Multi-Locomotion Robot 21** 

**Biomechanics in Teaching Aikido 37** 

**Section 2 Musculoskeletal and Injury Biomechanics 61** 

Chapter 5 **Biomechanics of the Fractured Femoral Neck –** 

Chapter 6 **Comparison of Intracranial Pressure by Lateral and Frontal Impacts** 

Aalap Patel and Tarun Goswami

Chapter 4 **The Role of Skull Mechanics in Mechanism of Cerebral Circulation 63** 

Karel Jelen, František Lopot, Daniel Hadraba, Hynek Herman and Martina Lopotova

Tadayoshi Aoyama, Taisuke Kobayashi, Zhiguo Lu, Kosuke

Yuri Moskalenko, Gustav Weinstein, Tamara Kravchenko, Peter Halvorson, Natalia Ryabchikova and Julia Andreeva

**The New BDSF-Method of Positioning the Implant as a Simple Beam with an Overhanging End 81** 

Mary E. Blackmore, Tarun Goswami and Carol Chancey

**– Validation of Computational Model 95** 

Chapter 7 **Cervical Spinal Injuries and Risk Assessment 115** 

Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa and Toshio Fukuda
