This article is part of the supplement: 1st Congress of the International Foot & Ankle Biomechanics (i-FAB) community
Keynote presentation
Multiscale modelling and team science: the future of orthopaedic biomechanics
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Correspondence: Marco Viceconti viceconti@tecno.ior.it
Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2008, 1(Suppl 1):K6 doi:10.1186/1757-1146-1-S1-K6
Published: 26 September 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Some of the most exciting developments in recent biomechanics research regard topics that lay at boundaries: boundaries between dimensional scales (i.e. cell-tissue interaction), between sub-systems (i.e. cardiovascular and musculoskeletal), or between different domains of biomedical knowledge (i.e. biology and engineering). This is a trend that we are observing in the entire biomedical research field, and undergoes the name of biomedical Integrative Research [1].