Sports Biomechanics

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Description:

Introduction: Objectives, improvement of performance, technique, equipment and training, injury prevention and rehabilitation; External Biomechanics: Forces, linear kinematics, linear kinetics, work, power, and energy, torques and moments of force, angular kinematics, angular kinetics, and fluid mechanics; Internal Biomechanics: Skeletal system, muscular system, and nervous system; Application of Biomechanical Principles: Qualitative biomechanical analysis to improve technique, Qualitative biomechanical analysis to improve training, Qualitative biomechanical analysis to understand injury development, Quantitative biomechanical analysis using gait lab.

Some of the lab activities

1. Temporal-spatial parameters

1. Force generated on the Force plate during different activities

3. Center of pressure studies during different activities

4. Foot pressure mapping under different walking

5. Comparison of performance of people having different foot conditions

6. Squatting position stability

7. Balance studies on foam and firm surface 8. Studies on muscle activities during walking, exercising and relaxing using Electromyographic analysis

Text books:

1. Peter M, McGimis. Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise. 4th Edition, Human Kinetics Publications. ISBN-13 : 978-1492571407, 2020.

2. Nihat Ozkaya, Dawn Leger, David Goldsheyder and Margareta Nordin. Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion and Deformation. 4th Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-44737-7, 2018

Reference books:

1. Duane Knudson. Fundamentals of Biomechanics. 2nd Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-0- 387-49311-4, 2007

2. David A. Winter, Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement. 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-39818-0, 2009

3. Roger Bartlett. Introduction to Sports Biomechanics: Analysing Human Movement Patterns. 2nd Edition, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-203-46202-5, 2007