This overview paper summarizes recent work on the biomechanics of soft tissues relevant to biomedical problems, prosthesis design and interventions, with reports on the papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual Day Conference, held in Leeds on 7 January 1994, by the Bioengineering Group for the Study of Human Joints in association with the Biological Engineering Society.
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