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Scientific analysis and prevention of dance sports injury
Published in Artde D.K.T. Lam, Stephen D. Prior, Siu-Tsen Shen, Sheng-Joue Young, Liang-Wen Ji, Smart Science, Design & Technology, 2019
At present, the attention paid to dance sports injuries is not high, and no targeted treatment plans have been developed. Dance sports injury has its particularity. China should explore establishment of dance sports injury medicine, strengthen medical clinical research of dance sports injury, and establish treatment plans and cure standards for dance sports injuries. Hospitals, medical colleges, and medical research institutes should work closely with dance institutions, dance learners, and practitioners to define the system of dance impairment through long-term research and follow-up studies, and define each specific dance injury. A scientific and rational dance nutrition injury diet program, through the accurate supplementation of nutrition, should also be established, accelerating cell proliferation, promoting muscle growth, and restoring the body as soon as possible.
Mechanobiology in Health and Disease in the Central Nervous System
Published in Jiro Nagatomi, Eno Essien Ebong, Mechanobiology Handbook, 2018
Theresa A. Ulrich, Sanjay Kumar
The central nervous system (CNS) has been the focus of extensive tissue biomechanics research for over three decades, spurred in part by widespread public interest in brain and spinal cord injury in automobile accidents, sports injuries, and other traumatic settings. Yet, despite this history of pioneering work in tissue-level biomechanics, investigation of cellular mechanobiology in the CNS has been comparatively limited. While the earliest work in this field stemmed directly from studies of neuronal trauma and regeneration (e.g., cell-level studies of axonal repair following injury), the last decade has seen rapid acceleration in the pace of research exploring how the properties of the normal (nontraumatized) mechanical microenvironment affect the health and disease of CNS cells and tissues.
Ankle proprioception in young ice hockey players, runners, and sedentary people
Published in Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett, Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science, 2008
Considering the importance of the proprioception in postural stability, movement control, and injury prevention, it would therefore be beneficial to understand the effects of exercise on proporioception function. The foot and ankle complex is a critical structure in postural stability and its injury rate is very high in all sports injuries of the body. To prevent foot and ankle injury, apart from prophylactic devices, exercise training in proprioception is needed to enable athletes to return to preinjury levels of activity following ligament and muscle injuries. However, it is still being debated upon whether exercise training can improve proprioception or not (Ashton-Miller, 2001). Some published research works have found that proprioception can be improved through exercise, especially proprioceptive exercise that requires three actions: the proprioception of the joints, balance capacity, and neuromuscular control (Irrgang and Neri 2000; Eils and Rosenbaum, 2001). In particular, long-term Tai Chi practice was found to be beneficial to the proprioception of the lower limb (Xu, et al. 2004). However, a recently published work which studied the influence of a five-month professional dance training without concurrent additional coordinative training found that such training did not lead to improvements in ankle joint position sense or improved measures of balance (Schmitt et al., 2005). These studies suggest that exercise may benefit proprioception. However, the effect may be influenced by the form and modality of the exercise. Up to now, scientific evidence on the impact of exercise form and modality on proprioception of the lower extremity is limited. To bridge the research gap, we designed a cross-sectional study to examine the effects of exercise on ankle proprioception in young people through comparison of the passive motion sense, kinesthesia, among three groups, long-term regular ice hockey players, long-term regular runners, and sedentary people. Such efforts would add the understanding in the effects of exercise on proprioception and subsequently contribute to the development of the program in the enhancement of proprioception function in children, elderly people, and patients with deficits of proprioception.
Exercise interventions to prevent hamstring injuries in athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2020
Rok Vatovec, Žiga Kozinc, Nejc Šarabon
Hamstring strain injuries are among the most common sport injuries. Previous studies reported high hamstring injury incidence in track and field (Alonso et al., 2009), soccer (Jan Ekstrand, Hägglund, & Waldén, 2011a), American football (Brophy et al., 2008), rugby (Brooks, Fuller, Kemp, & Reddin, 2005) and Australian football (Orchard & Seward, 2002). The number of hamstring injuries in soccer has increased in the last decade (Ekstrand, Waldén, & Hägglund, 2016) and now they represent 12% of all injuries and require more than four weeks of recovery in 15.8% players (Ekstrand, Hagglund, & Walden, 2011b). Along with a high injury incidence, a high rate of hamstring injury recurrence has been recognized (van der Horst et al., 2016). High injury and re-injury rates call for optimization of rehabilitation protocols and prevention programmes.
Collegiate baseball players with more optimal functional movement patterns demonstrate better athletic performance in speed and agility
Published in Journal of Sports Sciences, 2019
Yu-Pin Liang, Yi-Liang Kuo, Hsiang-Chin Hsu, Yen-Ysung Hsia, Ya-Wen Hsu, Yi-Ju Tsai
Injury prevention and performance improvement are two major goals for athletes, coaches, trainers, and therapists in sports medicine. Sports injuries in both the upper and lower extremities are common in athletes and otherwise physically active populations (Dallinga, Benjaminse, & Lemmink, 2012). Without proper intervention and management, sports injuries may develop into chronic dysfunctions, which can lead to abnormal movement patterns, unsatisfactory performance, increased risk of injury, loss of ability to participate in sports, and even early retirement (Dworak, Rzepnicka, Wilkosz, & Szczesny, 2010; Gerber, Williams, Scoville, Arciero, & Taylor, 1998; Meeuwisse, Tyreman, Hagel, & Emery, 2007). Baseball is one of the most popular sports worldwide. It involves multiple tasks, including ball throwing, ball hitting, and base running, which require an efficient kinetic chain from the lower extremities and trunk to generate and transfer energy to the upper extremities (Kageyama, Sugiyama, Kanehisa, & Maeda, 2015; Slenker, Limpisvasti, Mohr, Aguinaldo, & Elattrache, 2014). In addition to shoulder and elbow injuries, a markedly higher incidence and prevalence of lower extremity injuries, such as ankle and knee sprains and tendinopathies, have been reported among baseball players (Collins & Comstock, 2008; Dahm et al., 2016; Polster et al., 2013; Wilk et al., 2015).
Research on plantar pressure dynamic distribution characteristics of samba step movements based on biomechanics
Published in Connection Science, 2021
Song Honglian, K. Deepa Thilak, Tamizharasi G. Seetharam
The technical level of sports dance is tending to be more in the direction of artistic appreciation, so many sports dancers will inevitably experience sports injuries during practice. The study of motion biomechanics by mechanical theoretical research methods and experimental research methods can minimise the incidence of sports injuries. In the comparison of the characteristics of the plantar pressure line, the test group’s plantar pressure line is shorter than the control group’s plantar pressure line. The results showed that the data analysed by the study showed the average hip joint speed was 1.560 m/s, the average knee speed was 1.422 m/s, and the average ankle speed was 1.378 m/s. Muscle strength guarantees the sports dance special students to complete the dance movement, improve the stability of the rotation movement, cannot be separated from improving the muscle strength of the athletes, especially the leg muscle strength, and at the same time strengthen the ankle joint training and core strength. In the movement adjustment stage, the pressure centre trajectory keeps stable and moves slightly to the foot position. The level of pressure peak and pressure peak decreases slightly, and the stress area of the main foot increases slightly under the influence of body posture. In the formation stage of sports skills, teachers should pay attention to the division of fork steps in each action stage, as well as the explanation of action details in the action stage. Through the change of plantar pressure index, the formation of correct proprioceptive sense can be trained, so that the fork step of Samba dance can be correctly grasped and completed.