The behavior of soft tissues of human musculoskeletal system can be describedwith the biphasic model based on a continuum theory of mktures. This paper. using Galerkin weight-ed residual method.obtains a mixed finite element formulation for the linear biphasic model of smalldeformation. and. in turn. gives out the iterative scheme solving the system equations. The results ofnumerical analysis for the constrained compression problem are consistent with those obtained bytheory. which illustrates the correctnas and feasibility of the derived mixed finite element formula-tion. concludingly. this formulation provides an effective means of numerical analysis for the motfonmechanism of human articulating joints.