Anna Hadamus - Biomechanics in Medicine, Sport and Biology

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This book contains 14 chapters which are full papers of selected presentations from the International Conference of Polish Society of Biomechanics (BIOMECHANICS 2020). This conference takes place in 2021, as the global pandemic outburst of SARS-COV-2 in December 2019 made the (planned) organization of the conference in September 2020 impossible. One year later, in September 2021, the traditional meeting in conference halls, face-to-face with invited lecturers, colleagues from various institutions and countries, representatives of commercial partners, is still impossible. Therefore, the meeting is in an online format. Of course, this is not a perfect solution, but the best we can offer. Long breaks in meetings and conferences are not beneficial for the scientific community, as the interchange of ideas, discussions, and critical comments push the research work forward. That was the reason behind the decision to organize the meeting this year now in the new virtual world.

The restrictions related to SARS-COV-2 have influenced and continue to affect daily life but also the research. In many institutions, experimental research had to be suspended due to the closure of laboratories. It was not possible to invite subjects and patients to participate in research projects. In many universities, distance learning took teachers/researchers longer time than traditional learning. The researcher therefore had less time for scientific development. In some places, a big problem is the lack of funding due to pandemic time. Despite all these problems, the organizing committee of BIOMECHANICS 2020 received many interesting abstracts from various fields of biomechanics: sports biomechanics, clinical movement analysis, biomaterials, bioengineering, and many others. This book offers 14 full-length papers from different parts of modern biomechanics, which we hope can be of interest not only for the scientists but also for the students. We hope that the book will inspire you for further research.