CORE--BIOMECHANICS

建议延续OAIC/UM胡椒中心的生物力学核心。该中心将提供一系列技术和设备，用于对健康和虚弱老年人的身体功能进行精确的实验量化。该核心还以一系列计算机模拟模型的形式提供理论支持，以分析这些功能能力的要素，并确定以有效方式执行运动动作的能力的主要决定因素。它将向核心用户提供生物力学研究实验室(老年医学中心)工作人员在研究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。通过作为复杂仪器的中心来源，核心将促进老年生物力学研究的成本效益。肢体残疾在老年人中很普遍。无论潜在的病理机制是什么，这些残疾都以生物力学的形式表现出来：肌肉力量和力量发展速度降低，运动范围和速度受限，传入反馈减少，身体节段协调模式不当，甚至大小便失禁系统功能受损。生物力学核心将通过帮助感兴趣的教师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，从而为老年医学学术领袖的发展做出贡献。因此，它将通过涉及背景审查、假设生成、跨学科试点研究项目以及数据分析和解释的定向研究来培训他们，以检查对老年人身体能力产生不利影响的问题。因此，生物力学核心将提高目前得到支持的研究的质量，并鼓励在密歇根大学建立新的老年生物力学跨学科研究计划。

Continuation of the OAIC/UM Pepper Center's Biomechanics Core is proposed. The Core will provide an array of techniques and equipment for the precise experimental quantification of physical functioning of healthy and frail elders. The Core also supplies 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. It will make available to Core users the experience of the staff of the Biomechanics Research Laboratory (Geriatrics Center) in investigating problems involving musculoskeletal biomechanics and energetics, thereby enhancing the quality of Core users' research. By serving as a central source for sophisticated instrumentation, the Core will promote cost-effectiveness in geriatric biomechanics 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, and even impaired continence system function. The Biomechanics Core will contribute to the development of academic leaders in geriatrics by helping interest faculty 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.