AN EXAMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITY MECHANICS ON COMMON INJURIES AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS IN BASEBALL PITCHERS AND BALLET DANCERS
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- title
- AN EXAMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITY MECHANICS ON COMMON INJURIES AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS IN BASEBALL PITCHERS AND BALLET DANCERS
- author
- Hulburt, Tessa Comstock
- abstract
- All sports carry a risk of injury, but baseball and dance have consistently high injury rates. The study of sport-specific movement patterns can be used to identify abnormal or inefficient motion that can lead to acute or overuse injury. Modern three-dimensional motion capture technology is a vital tool for measurement of the complexity of human movement biomechanics. This study used motion capture technology to identify typical and/or injurious motion in tasks that are fundamental to two popular sports: baseball and ballet.
- subject
- baseball
- biomechanics
- dance
- injury
- motion capture
- movement
- contributor
- Nicholson, Kristen F (committee chair)
- Danelson, Kerry (committee member)
- Knarr, Brian (committee member)
- Waterman, Brian (committee member)
- Aguinaldo, Arnel (committee member)
- Popoli, David (committee member)
- date
- 2022-09-17T08:35:42Z (accessioned)
- 2022 (issued)
- degree
- Biomedical Engineering (discipline)
- embargo
- 2024-09-16 (terms)
- 2024-09-16 (liftdate)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/101251 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Dissertation