CORE--BIOMECHANICS

OAIC/UM Pepper中心生物力学核心的延续被提议为“生物力学核心”。“核心将提供一系列技术和设备，用于对健康和体弱长者的身体功能进行精确的实验量化，以调查衰老表型的属性。同时，也为今后的研究提供了理论支持。 该系统以一系列计算机模拟模型的形式来分析这些功能性能力的要素，并建立以有效方式执行运动行为的能力的主要决定因素。核心最初将支持一个核心开发项目（CDP-I：平衡损失;亚历山大等人），一项试点探索性研究（PES-1：转弯时的风险因素; Persad）和一项研究计划（肥胖和步态; Richardson）。它将向核心用户提供生物力学研究实验室（机械工程系）和流动性研究实验室（老年医学中心）工作人员在调查涉及肌肉骨骼生物力学和能量学问题方面的经验，从而提高核心用户的研究质量。 身体残疾在老年人中很普遍。无论潜在的病理是什么，这些残疾都表现在生物力学方面：肌肉力量和发展力量的速度降低，运动范围和速度有限，传入反馈减少，身体部分协调模式不适当，平衡和跌倒停止困难，甚至骨盆底和骨盆系统功能受损。 生物力学核心将有助于老年医学学术领导者的发展，帮助感兴趣的学者和他们的研究员通过生物力学研究技术分析一系列老年问题。因此，它将通过指导性研究，包括背景审查，假设生成，跨学科的试点研究项目，以及数据分析和解释来研究对学生的身体能力产生不利影响的问题， 老人 因此，生物力学核心将提高目前支持的研究的质量，并鼓励在密歇根大学建立新的跨学科的老年生物力学研究项目。

Continuation of the OAIC/UM Pepper Center's Biomechanics Core is proposed as the "Biomechanics Core." The Core will provide an array of techniques and equipment for the precise experimental quantification of physical functioning of healthy and frail elders to investigate attributes of the aging phenotype. It will also supply theoretical support in the form of a range of computer simulation models to analyze the elements of those functional abilities and to establish the major determinants of abilities to perform motor acts in an effective manner. The Core will initially support one Core Development Project (CDP-I: Losses of Balance; Alexander et al.), one Pilot Exploratory Study (PES-1 : Risk Factors While Turning; Persad) and one Research Initiative (Obesity and Gait; Richardson). It will make available to Core users the experience of the staff of the Biomechanics Research Laboratory (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and the Mobility Research Laboratory (Geriatrics Center) in investigating problems involving musculoskeletal biomechanics and energetics, thereby enhancing the quality of Core users' research. Physical disabilities are epidemic in the elderly. Whatever the underlying pathologies, these disabilities express themselves in biomechanical terms: reduced muscular strengths and rates of developing strengths, limited ranges and speeds of motion, reduced afferent feedback, inappropriate body segment coordination patterns, difficulty with balance and fall arrests, and even impaired pelvic floor and continence system function. The Biomechanics Core will contribute to the development of academic leaders in geriatrics by helping interested aculty and their fellows to analyze a range of geriatric problems through biomechanical research techniques. Thus, it will train them through directed study involving background reviews, hypothesis generation, interdisciplinary pilot research projects, and data analysis and interpretation to examine issues adversely affecting the physical abilities of the elderly. The Biomechanics Core will therefore enhance the quality of currently supported research and encourage the establishment of new interdisciplinary research programs in geriatric biomechanics at the University of Michigan.