Injury Prevention and Improving the Performance of Athletes

Abstract

Sports biomechanics helps one to understand the sport movements and helps increase the performance of individuals and prevent injury. Understanding the mechanics involved in every sport is crucial for kinesiologists help patients to recover from traumatic or overuse injuries. Each sport activity has different phases, and in each phase, the kinetics and kinematics are studied for better understanding. Computational technologies help to understand sports movements and forces developed during motion and provide proper guidance that can be followed to avoid injuries and enhance performance. The aspects of biomechanical analysis of sports, injuries and their causes in sports, various techniques for recording and analysis of sports movements, and lastly, performance improvement and preventing injury using the analysis are discussed in this chapter.