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Biomechanics of Lower Limb Injuries

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Biomechanics is a discipline among the sciences derived from the natural sciences, which deals with physical analysis of biological systems, therefore, the physical analysis of the human body movements. When dimensioned biomechanics in the context of related sciences, whose aim’s to study the movement, we must remember that this scientific context rests on two fundamental facts: (a) the biomechanics has clearly defined its subject matter, thus defining its basic structure of knowledge, and (b) the results of investigations are obtained through the use of scientific methods.

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  1. Orthopaedic Department Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Manuel Vieira da Silva & Bruno Pereira

  2. ICVS/3B’s Laboratório Associado, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Portugal

    Manuel Vieira da Silva

  3. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre - FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

    Bruno Pereira

  4. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Bruno Pereira

  5. School of Health Sciences (ECS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Bruno Pereira

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  2. Hopital de la Croix-Rousse, University of Lyon 1 Hopital de la, Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France

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  3. Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Federal University of São Paulo, Vila Clementino - São Paulo, Brazil

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da Silva, M.V., Pereira, B. (2017). Biomechanics of Lower Limb Injuries. In: van Dijk, C., Neyret, P., Cohen, M., Della Villa, S., Pereira, H., Oliveira, J. (eds) Injuries and Health Problems in Football . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53924-8_8

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