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Preventing Injury and Advancing Rehabilitation

  • Kinesiology and biomechanics can also be used to help prevent injury and further rehabilitation.
  • Physical trainers can teach proper forms of running, jumping, and landing, which can decrease the chance of getting an injury.
  • For example, if an athlete jumps with his legs to close together or his feet not straight, he increases his chance of landing wrong and twisting his ankle.

The Calculus Involved

  • There are many complex equations that someone can use, to optimize an athlete's performance.
  • If an athlete does happen to get injured, a physical trainer can prepare the proper exercises for an athlete to recover.
  • Someone who studies kinesiology could find and solve different equations for different sports.

Enhancing Athletic Performance

  • These equations would find the most effective way of doing something.
  • Kinesiology and biomechanics are a vital part of sports because of all the body movements involved.
  • Coaches and personal trainers use these sciences to develop techniques that can optimize an athlete’s performance.
  • Kinesiology and biomechanics can be used to improve an athlete’s performance in any sport.

Examples

  • In basketball, many calculations can be done involving vertical, body size, and angle of shot release, to help determine the most efficient jump shot form.

Example

  • In soccer, calculations can be done involving kicking speed, curve of the ball, and trajectory of the ball, to help give a player the highest chance of scoring a goal.

Careers in Kinesiology and Biomechanics

  • In 1971, Ronald Brown and James Counsilman conducted research to help improve the swimming stroke.
  • Before 1971, most swimmers moved their arms directly back and forth to create a drag force, which pulled the swimmers forward.
  • People with a degree in these sciences, can find a job with a sports team to research the most effective ways of doing things.

The Basics

  • After their research, Brown and Counsilman discovered that by moving your arms in a circular sweeping motion, as oppose to directly back and forth, swimmers would be able to move faster.
  • Kinesiology is the scientific study of human movement.
  • They may also be able to work with players and teach them these techniques, perhaps giving them a competitive edge.

Example:

  • They realized that a circular motion of the arms would create both a drag force and a lift force allowing the swimmer to move quicker.
  • It involves many areas such as calculus, anatomy, psychology, and biomechanics.
  • Calculus was used when solving the drag and lift force equations to determine the maximum speed.
  • Biomechanics is basically the same as kinesiology, but some may consider it to be more specific.

Two years ago, former Miami Heat Guard, Norris Cole, hired a shooting coach to help him work on his shooting form. He did this because he was unsatisfied with his shooting in the first round of the playoffs, going only 2-5 from the three point at 40%. After his shooting coach worked with Cole's form, Cole went 9-11 on threes at 81%, in the very next round. He more than doubled his three point percentage, just because his coach taught him the most effective form of shooting.

  • Both are very important in fields relating to rehabilitation, physical conditioning/exercise, and sports.
  • Other jobs in kinesiology and biomechanics include athletic trainers, physical therapists, sports psychologists, and more.

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