or by transplanting new cells into the brain. Biomechanical prosthesis, that is computational mechanical devices which supplement or replace brain functions, will be necessary to augmentbiomedical therapies. Many of you are familiar with the rapidly developing field of brain-computer interfaces.
You hear that word and you think it means 'biologically efficient,' or 'biologically perfect.' Well, biomechanical is not biological. Biomechanical just means you do it right, period. You know?If you drop a kid in a pool and that kid starts to sink, you don't say, "I'm sorry.
Before I clicked on that, sort of like a flood of memories of various things in my own experience that made me remember that indeed there were or had been perhaps in my mind at the moment biomechanically perfect individuals in this world who had been able to achieve great things barefooting.I'd remembered Zola Budd, if any of you are older than me or about the same age, you probably have remembered or heard about her, an Olympic athlete runner.
But, hopefully, you engineers realize those words don't mean anything. "Biomechanically efficient" means like, if I'm trying to have a beer, and I keep putting it over here, it just means you just go like that , you know? It just means you do it right. And I love this idea that, if you're not "It," if you're not doing it right, well, too bad, you never will.”
over again for years. And I was hearing it back when I was going to see sports medicine doctor. They would look at me and say, "Well, you're not biomechanically perfect. You need orthotics, you need cortisone shots. You need some $150 shoes, which you have to throw away in three months.
Can you go all the way down and come all the way up on both feet? This is a biomechanical analysis of a young gymnast doing a squat.
Number two is I want to talk then about some of the different injury patterns we're seeing and some of the different uses of a kind of injury mechanical screening and biomechanical analysis we're doing down at the hospital. And then lastly, talk about preventive strategies as we go forth thinking about the keys to becoming a healthy runner, because from my perspective, whether or not
she gives you one of those. and what makes sense biomechanically with modern shoe technology whether that's serving us or not?
So we'll start off with clothing. So naturally or biomechanically , our ankles are designed to absorb that stuff and to keep us balanced.
in the country -- says the same thing. He said, if everyone tried to run in their bare feet, 95 percent of them would end up in his office with injuries, because they are not 'biomechanically perfect'. Now, you hear this, and you think, "Okay, well. If I were to prevent any organism from performing any function, I will threaten it with pain. You know. Pain is a great dissuader." So what they're telling you is, unless you are 'biomechanically perfect', running is fraught with danger.
If you drop a kid in a pool and that kid starts to sink, you don't say, "I'm sorry. You're not biomechanically efficient. You're fucked, you know?" No. You pull the kid out. You give a few compressions, you know? And you teach him how to swim. That's what's been lacking from this whole question about running. Nobody ever tells you how to do this damn
Even as new medicines are designed and new sources of cells are created, there's a tremendous amount of work underway, including projects at Google, to directly connect the central nervous system with peripheral nerves and muscles using biomechanical prostheses and advanced signal processing. With little further introduction, I'm going to play a clip from the Neuralinks and the Neuralink team's work.
quickly and have to stop running for a long time he said was because "the vast majority of people are not blessed in that way. They've got some biomechanical inefficiencies." Okay, biomechanical inefficiencies. Now, a guy named Dr. Maharam -- who is the medical consultant for the New York City Marathon, and who's billed as the premier running position in the country -- says the same thing. He said, if everyone tried to run in their bare feet, 95 percent of them would end up in his office with injuries, because they
the vast majority of them will get hurt very quickly and would have to stop running for a very long time." Now, why is that? The problem with you people is that you are not efficient and biomechanically -gifted runners. The vast majority of people are not blessed in that way.
your legs are three-ish meters long, it's hard not to cover a lot of ground with a single step. And yeah, big theropods, T-rex is going to be a power walker. It's not going to run in the conventional biomechanical sense, where both feet are off the ground at once. - So it's not running. It's power walking.
Can you go all the way down and come all the way up on both feet? and her physical therapist, and actually went back and started competing again and got this biomechanical analysis
You get new $150 shoes." But then, you know, you start to think about this, "Well, wait a minute. What does 'biomechanically efficient' mean?" You hear that word and you think it means 'biologically efficient,' or 'biologically perfect.' Well, biomechanical is not biological. Biomechanical just means you do it right, period. You know?
But the West Side Highway here is just up and down. But it-- you have to think about how your body works, how it works biomechanically , to be the most efficient for you.
the New York City Marathon, and who's billed as the world's premier running physician -- and he said exactly the same thing, that if most Americans tried to run in their bare feet, 95 percent of the them would end up in his office, because they are not "biomechanically gifted.” Which, you know, I'm sure -- hopefully, a lot of you guys out there are engineers -- when you hear that.
lot of you guys out there are engineers -- when you hear that. For the layperson, I hear I'm gifted and blessed and biomechanically efficient. It must mean that I must have some super-engineered, kind of, prolific bone structure, you know, that makes me superhuman. Sort of, you know, Siborian.
So the mechanic of movement and the change in the pattern of the mechanic of movement is really the key issue that I see when an injury happens. So when it comes to running, I wanna talk to you about three things; training and your anatomy and the biomechanical factors that go into injury and I'm gonna pull out a couple of these videos to show you.
I can't ever fix this problem in my elbow or my wrist, because I'm disorganized here. So now, I've got a plan here. Straight up and down and braced. Now I need to show you a very complex biomechanical principle called "flexion and external rotation." And I know you guys are all superstars.
America, did that tomorrow, the vast majority of them would get hurt very quickly and have to stop running for a very long time." And the reason why you would get hurt very quickly and have to stop running for a long time he said was because "the vast majority of people are not blessed in that way. They've got some biomechanical inefficiencies." Okay, biomechanical inefficiencies. Now, a guy named Dr. Maharam -- who is the medical consultant for the New York City Marathon, and who's billed as the premier running position
are not 'biomechanically perfect'. Now, you hear this, and you think, "Okay, well. If I were to prevent any organism from performing any function, I will threaten it with pain. You know. Pain is a great dissuader." So what they're telling you is, unless you are 'biomechanically perfect', running is fraught with danger. It's this risky thing like trying to remove your own appendix.
You need some $150 shoes, which you have to throw away in three months. You get new $150 shoes." But then, you know, you start to think about this, "Well, wait a minute. What does 'biomechanically efficient' mean?" You hear that word and you think it means 'biologically efficient,' or 'biologically perfect.' Well, biomechanical is not biological.
burning, so I was wondering if you had any suggestions there. I mean, kids love the feeling of weightlessness. And if you ever want to see if a motion is biomechanically efficient, figure out whether a kid or a boxer does it. You know?
It just means you do it right. And I love this idea that, if you're not "It," if you're not doing it right, well, too bad, you never will.” You know, it's like taking a kid and throwing him in the pool and watching the bubbles come up and go, "Sorry, you're not biomechanically efficient," you know? "And you never will be.” You know, what happens when you throw a kid into the pool, and he starts to sink? You fish the kid out, do some compressions,