Motion Analysis in Sport

Motion is an integral and essential part of life. Motion in sport is complex and requires extreme precision in milliseconds. Exercise and sport increases strength, endurance and flexibility in all ages and genders. Physiological and pathological motion can be evaluated to prevent injury and increase performance. Motion analysis in sports can furthermore define game strategy and tactics, evaluate team organization capacity, can give feed-back to players and athletes, and assess efficiency of training. Also named as sports biomechanics, motion analysis in sports is an interdisciplinary science that quantifies joint angles, ground reaction forces and skeletal muscle activity in a calibrated space using sophisticated high-speed cameras, force plates and electromyography (EMG), respectively. After data acquisition, an advanced computer and software calculates physiological and pathological joint moments and powers. Kinetics, kinematics and skeletal muscle activity by EMG can be quantified in the lab and field. Muscle strength and proprioception is correlated with motion analysis. In this presentation, lab and field experience in various sport biomechanical studies will be shared.

The talk has been given by Prof. Feza Korkusuz from the Hacettepe University.