1 Suzi Edwards, 2 Julie R Steele, 3 Jill Cook 4 Craig Purdam and 2 Deirdre E McGhee 1 School of Human Movement Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia; 2 Biomechanics Research Laboratory, University of Wollongong, Australia; 3 University of Melbourne, Australia; 4 Department of Physical Therapies, Australian Institute of Sport, Australia. email: [email protected], web: www.csu.edu.au/f...

Sesamoid fractures result in significant pain and poor biomechanics, which can ultimately hinder athletic performance delay return to sport. Current literature describes the utility of platelet rich plasma (PRP) treating various musculoskeletal injuries, but there is minimal data regarding its application sesamoid pathology.

Background. The importance of using statistical approaches has increased and became necessary for researchers and specialists in sports biomechanics because they need more objective and accurate methods to increase knowledge. Objectives. Evaluate the reality of using practical significance in the articles published in scientific conferences in the biomechanical sport. Methods. One hundred twe...

Paralympic sport has been expanding, both in number of participants and the variety modalities included, thus increasing scientific research with different objectives increased. This bibliographic review used keyword “Paralympic Sport” to assess evolution publications over years. We created 12 categories: Movement; Performance Periodization; Nutrition; Rehabilitation; Review Studies; Psychobiol...

The vision of the IOC is to change the world for the better through sport and to promote social change. Protecting the health of the athlete is an important part of this vision, in order to protect the integrity of sport, protect elite athletes, protect the health of all those exercising and to promote physical activity. The protection of clean athletes through doping control is also important ...

BACKGROUND As injury rates rise in the later stages of sporting activities, a better understanding of lower extremity biomechanics in the later phases of gamelike situations may improve training and injury prevention programs. HYPOTHESIS Lower extremity biomechanics of a drop-jump task (extracted from a principal components analysis) would reveal factors associated with risk of anterior cruci...

A model of sport biomechanics describing short-distance running (sprinting) is developed by applying methods of optimal control. In the considered model the motion of a sportsman is described by a second order ordinary differential equation. Two interconnected optimal control problems are formulated and solved: the minimum energy and time-optimal control problems. Based on the comparison with r...

The optimal barbell trajectory for snatch weightlifting has been achieved empirically by several researchers. They have studied the differences between the elite weightlifters’ movement patterns and suggested three optimal barbell trajectories (type A, B, and C). But they didn’t agree for introducing the best trajectory. One of the reasons is this idea that the selected criterion by researchers...