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Yuvaraj Ramasamy, Juliana Usman, Rizal Razman, Yeap Ming Wei, Harley Towler and Mark King
The shoulder is a unique and complex joint in the human body with three bones and four joints, which makes it the most unstable joint in the body due to the amount of motion. To improve approaches toward understanding the performance of overhead throwing...
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Hassan Sadeghi, Seyed Sadredin Shojaedin, Ali Abbasi, Elham Alijanpour, Marcus Fraga Vieira, Zdenek Svoboda and Kianoush Nazarpour
Falling is one of the most common causes of hip fracture and death in older adults. A comparison of the biomechanics of the gait in fallers and non-fallers older adults, especially joint coordination and coordination variability, enables the understandin...
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Kristof Kipp, John Krzyszkowski, Todd Smith, Christopher Geiser and Hoon Kim
The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the biomechanics of countermovement (CMJ) and preferred-style (PrefJ) jumps. Eight male basketball players (age: 19 ± 1 year; height: 1.84 ± 0.14 m; mass: 92.8 ± 11.4 kg) participated in a cross-se...
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Raman Garimella, Thomas Peeters, Eduardo Parrilla, Jordi Uriel, Seppe Sels, Toon Huysmans and Stijn Verwulgen
Aerodynamic drag force and projected frontal area (A) are commonly used indicators of aerodynamic cycling efficiency. This study investigated the accuracy of estimating these quantities using easy-to-acquire anthropometric and pose measures. In the first...
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Rebecca Alonzo, Crosby Teo, Jing Wen Pan, Phillis Soek Po Teng, Thorsten Sterzing and Pui Wah Kong
This study investigated how midsole hardness of basketball footwear affects lower extremity biomechanics and impacts perception in drop vertical jumps. Eighteen male basketball players performed drop vertical jumps from three heights (31 cm, 46 cm, 61 cm...
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Zhiqiang Zhu, Weijie Fu, En Shao, Lu Li, Linjie Song, Wei Wang and Yu Liu
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the acute effects of shoe midsole stiffness on the joint biomechanics of the lower extremities during specific basketball movements. Methods: Thirty participants wearing stiff midsole shoes (SS) and control shoes (...
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