Biomechanics

The Republic of South Africa runner Oscar Pistorius got in the news when in London 2012 Olympic Games entered the sprint track on prosthetic feet shoulder to shoulder with healthy distance runners. He even ran 4 x 400 meters in the relay race final. The athlete, whose both legs had been amputated, ran on carbon fiber produced springing flat prostheses and was surnamed "Blade Runner". Oscar Pistorius is the most vivid example of social integration.
Rapidly improving technologies daily change human life. Contemporary medical and rehabilitation equipment is already used to help restore human organism functions and to integrate the disabled into the society. Such equipment is widely used in medical, therapy and rehabilitation centers, and is designed and developed by biomechanics engineers, the preparation of whom this study programme is aimed at.
Biomechanics is a link between medicine and engineering, which models human behavior by means of mathematical methods application, and is able to produce functional prostheses, and having evaluated all the possibilities, restore human body parts functions.
Also, biomechanics engineers are able to design and develop rehabilitation equipment, e.g. the wheelchair, special beds for the handicapped or patients. They also can readjust any accommodation for the handicapped. Moreover, they may be employed as doctors or kinesetherapists' assistants, who provide biomechanics information on the patient's movements in the rehabilitation or training course, and are able to select and produce the appropriate orthopedic equipment. Biomechanics design and develop smart bionic prostheses and other technologies in wear.
Modern biomechanics specialists are "magicians", who are able to design a convenient prosthesis and restore movements of the human body. Their work results in a healthy working human beings’ despite of their disability. The wheelchairs and other equipment also provides an opportunity to live a full life.