Assessment and Monitoring of Human Movement

Human movement studies have long involved researchers from various scientific disciplines, such as biomechanics, functional anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience, in responding to the growing demand in sports science for reliable and accurate methods and tools for monitoring and evaluating physical performance. Accurately measuring body movement data (i.e., walking, running, throwing, swimming, and paddle stroke) is useful for identifying biomechanical and kinetics and physiological and metabolic variables. However, the transition of functional assessment of physical activity, with accurate and reliable data, from the laboratory to the daily life environment has been complex.

Thanks to technological innovation, miniaturized and wearable sensors can non-invasively measure and monitor kinematic and dynamic data related to the performance of a specific sport of physical activity, broadening their application in the clinical field, such as monitoring and improving patient care directly at home or at a distance. Therefore, the quantitative analysis of human movement is a necessary and effective tool that helps transversally both the medical, physical fitness and wellness, and the purely competitive environment linked to high-level sport.

Thus, this research topic aims to cover the recent advancement in the studies on human movement through functional assessment, providing protocols and devices adapted to monitor specifically the physical conditions in different fields.

We welcome Research studies exploring the subtopics of sensors and technological innovations: Neuromuscular, Physiological, Metabolic and Biomechanical variables applied to sports performance, physical fitness, and rehabilitation physical activity.