How mechanical engineering related to medical science?

 How mechanical engineering related to medical science?

Have you heard of complex brain surgeries performed by robots in 20 minutes which once demanded 2 hours of dedicated efforts by surgeons? That’s a brief glimpse of mechanical engineering making inroads to surgical bed. Wait, I will give some more insight to help you grasp how mechanical engineering can have diverse application in medical fields.

Don’t be surprised when I say mechanical engineers are fighting cancer! Chemotherapy is an extant treatment of cancer. In laymen terms, this procedure can be explained by an analogy to treat a house infested with rodents like mouse. In order to kill the mice, should you use a rat kill or should you burn the entire house? I hope you would go with the first choice. But the chemotherapy is a medical procedure in which your entire body is exposed to radiations. Drawing back an analogy from the rodent killing story, chemotherapy is like burning the entire house just to kill rats. So, an ideal medical solution would be treating just the infected organ with radiations. Well, this is can be achieved by targeted drug delivery and the recent developments in microfluidics (a core area of research in mechanical engineering) have made this feasible.

Mechanical Engineering at the crossroads of medicine delves into biomechanics

 mechanobiology, medical device development and biomaterials. Some experts like to re-brand biomechanics as rehabilitation robotics or biorobotics and biomaterials to tissue engineering or regenerative medicine. Simply, I can say that these are all interdisciplinary fields and involve the applications of mechanical engineering principles

Biomechanics involves the application of mechanical engineering principles like statics, dynamics, kinetics and kinematics into the field of medicine. There are further subdivisions in biomechanics like musculoskeletal biomechanics, cell biomechanics, molecular biomechanics, neuromusculoskeletal biomechanics, sports biomechanics, blast and injury biomechanics. You can follow one of my articles where I have described some of them in brief.

Applications of Mechanical Engineering in Medical Fiel

Biomedical engineering may sound a little complicated and in fact, many universities don’t offer this course in the undergraduate level. However, this is an emerging field and Forbes has listed ‘Biostatistics’ as the best postgraduate degree to acquire. 

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