  Biomechanics is a scientific discipline that studies the forces acting on a
body and the effects they produce. In this paper, we bring together
biomechanists and networking researchers to shed light into how research
efforts in biomechanics, primarily related to the study of the human body, can
be facilitated through networking and computing technologies, such as edge and
cloud computing, Software Defined Networking, and Information-Centric
Networking. We first present challenges related to networking and computing
that biomechanists face today and we then describe how networking and computing
technologies can address them. Finally, we identify directions for future
networking research with a focus on biomechanics to facilitate and encourage
interdisciplinary collaborations between biomechanists and networking
researchers.
