Biomechanics is often defined as `mechanics applied to biology,’ but it is actually much more (Humphrey, 2003). Biomechanics is better defined as the development, extension and application of mechanics for the purposes of understanding better physiology and pathophysiology as well as the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. Biomechanics can be seen as either a subarea of bioengineering or biomathematics, in fact, better seen as simultaneously belonging to both of them.
Bioengineering can be defined as the application of engineering-driven reasoning to support either biology or medicine, with the purpose of either replicating bio-systems such as bones or tissues, or even applying it such as in artificial bio-systems. On the other hand, biomathmatics, called by some as mathematical biology or theoretical biology, is the application of mathematics to understand bio-systems such in population modeling or cancer treatment studies.
However this is not straighforward, in some cases even impossible to see the differences and classify whether it is this or that.
On this blog I intend to document how I see it, by examples taken from the literature, comments using my own viewpoint. I hope it could be useful for somebody else.
References cited:
J.D. Humphrey, Review Paper: Continuum biomechanics of soft biological tissues, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 2003 459, 3-46, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2002.1060.
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