This website links to my website www.biotensegrity.com where I have several papers on biotensegrity-- the application of Kenneth Snelson’s principle of ‘floating compression” and Buckminster Fuller’s  concept of “Tensegrity” to biologic constructs.

Work on biotensegrity started in  in the mid 1970s, when I was a young orthopedic surgeon trying to understand just what I was doing as a ‘body mechanic’. Medical education and, even more particularly, surgical training, is probably the most anti-intellectual  training experience outside of military combat training. Like combat situations, life and limb are at stake and there is no room for learning from your mistakes, but only from the mistakes of others. You are overloaded with facts, given little time to think, too much to do, and little time to do it in. Original thought and experimentation is discouraged and usually punished rather than rewarded. It is only afterward, after all exams are completed, can you begin to think for yourself. The wonder of it is that any of us do. Now that I am retired from clinical practice, I have time to do some thinking, I hope it is not too late.

See the next pages for a brief history of Biotensegrity and videos of a conversation on Biotensegrity between Tom Flemons and me. There are also several papers and a movie that should be considered WIP, (Works In Progress).

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