About this Research Topic
The interest in Paralympic and adapted sports has significantly increased in recent years, creating a demand for technological tools to support daily sport practice. Wearable technologies offer non-invasive, portable and overall convenient solutions to monitor athletes’ performance on and off the field. The gathered information can be utilized not only by sports specialists and athletes to improve sport performance and prevent injury but also translated into the field of rehabilitation in people with disabilities, uncovering the potential relationships between specific impairment types and motion.
Understanding the relationship between impairment and sport performance is fundamental for developing evidence-based classification systems in Paralympic sports. The aim of classification is to guarantee fairness in competition by reducing the impact of impairment on the competition outcome. Current classification practices of athlete evaluation are performed by specialized personnel in out-of-the-lab setting, with little use of valid and objective measurement devices. To this end, wearable technologies can provide the necessary tools to develop new objective testing procedures for classification purposes.
This Research Topic of Frontiers in Sports and Active Living focuses on the in-field application of wearable technology in Paralympic and adapted sports. The versatility of this technology allows the measurement of sports actions directly where they are performed, making it suitable for various in-field applications, from performance characterization to training optimization and injury prevention.
This Topic will include works that employ wearable technology for purposes such as performance characterization, training optimization, injury prevention, classification research and/or assistive technology optimization. Authors are invited to submit works (original research and reviews) investigating the application of different types of wearable technologies, such as physiological (e.g., heart rate), biochemical (e.g., metabolites), neuromechanical (e.g., EMG) and/or biomechanical (e.g., force or inertial) sensors.
Understanding the relationship between impairment and sport performance is fundamental for developing evidence-based classification systems in Paralympic sports. The aim of classification is to guarantee fairness in competition by reducing the impact of impairment on the competition outcome. Current classification practices of athlete evaluation are performed by specialized personnel in out-of-the-lab setting, with little use of valid and objective measurement devices. To this end, wearable technologies can provide the necessary tools to develop new objective testing procedures for classification purposes.
This Research Topic of Frontiers in Sports and Active Living focuses on the in-field application of wearable technology in Paralympic and adapted sports. The versatility of this technology allows the measurement of sports actions directly where they are performed, making it suitable for various in-field applications, from performance characterization to training optimization and injury prevention.
This Topic will include works that employ wearable technology for purposes such as performance characterization, training optimization, injury prevention, classification research and/or assistive technology optimization. Authors are invited to submit works (original research and reviews) investigating the application of different types of wearable technologies, such as physiological (e.g., heart rate), biochemical (e.g., metabolites), neuromechanical (e.g., EMG) and/or biomechanical (e.g., force or inertial) sensors.
Keywords: sport technology, biomechanics, wearable, paralympic, adapted sports, disability
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