Biomechanics Core

摘要 生物力学研究核心，此后称为“生物力学核心”（BC）将使其人员 投入时间协助和培训研究人员进行新的和扩大的研究， 疾病和炎症与年龄相关疾病相互作用，以确定与以下方面相关的关键健康结果： 活动性和功能状态，老龄化的生物力学，以及老年医生和其他 与活动能力受损、福尔斯和跌倒相关损伤、尿失禁相关的生物力学方面的临床医生 老年人的子宫脱垂它们还将使核心小组支持的调查人员能够大量使用 机械系生物力学研究实验室现有的设备和设施 工程，以及设施的流动性研究实验室在老年医学中心。 本请求旨在实现几个尚未实现的目标，整合新的想法，并扩大核心 活动进入新领域。这些包括虚弱的老年人行走的能量，平衡的损失和福尔斯在 老年人，尿失禁，脱垂和大便失禁的老年妇女。经济效益是 通过这一核心结构，而不是重复单独的 生物力学的组成部分。自成立以来，核心一直作为一个咨询服务，以教师 对老年人的流动性问题进行多学科研究。因此，它提供了一些建议， 否则，如果它不存在，就更难获得。这种一致性反过来又在积极意义上影响质量 经同行评审的出版物记录证明，该研究所进行的研究， 成功的年轻研究人员，以及K12，K23，R21，R01和SCOR（P50）赠款。

Abstract The Biomechanics Research Core, henceforth called the “Biomechanics Core,” (BC) will enable its personnel to devote time to assist and train investigators in the conduct of new and expanded research on how metabolic disease and inflammation interact with age-related disease to determine key health outcomes related to mobility and functional status, the biomechanics of aging, and to the training of geriatric physicians and other clinicians in the biomechanics relevant to impaired mobility, falls and fall-related injuries, urinary incontinence and prolapse in the elderly. They also will enable substantial use by Core-supported investigators of the equipment and facilities that exist in the Biomechanics Research Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as facilities in the Mobility Research Laboratory at the Geriatrics Center. The present request seeks to accomplish several unmet goals, integrate new ideas, and to broaden the Core activities into new areas. These include the energetics of walking in frail elderly, losses of balance and falls in the elderly, urinary incontinence, prolapse and fecal incontinence in older women. Economic efficiencies are gained in terms of equipment and service through this core structure rather than duplicating separate biomechanics components to each. Since its inception, the Core has served as a consulting service to faculty performing multidisciplinary research into geriatric mobility problems. It has thus provided advice which might otherwise be harder to obtain if it did not exist. This consistency in turn impacts in a positive sense the quality of the research conducted at the Institution as witnessed by the record of peer-reviewed publications, successful young investigators, and the K12, K23, R21, R01, and SCOR (P50) grants awarded.