Assessment and Monitoring of Human Movement Volume II

This is the second volume of our previous Research Topic, "Assessment and Monitoring of Human Movement". Feel free to check out the first volume here.

Human movement studies blend various scientific fields, including biomechanics, functional anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience. These disciplines collaborate to develop precise methods and tools critical for assessing physical performance, which is essential in sports science. Accurately measuring body movement during different physical activities, such as walking, running, and swimming, is a vital aspect of this field. These measurements help identify key biomechanical and physiological variables. The challenge, however, lies in transitioning these assessments from laboratory settings to everyday environments. Thanks to innovations in sports, fitness, and clinical devices, along with modern AI systems that enable markerless tracking, it is now becoming possible to make this transition.

This Research Topic aims to explore the latest advancements in functional assessment tools and methodologies pertaining to human movement. It seeks to address the development and application of wearable sensors and other technologies that measure and monitor kinematic and dynamic data in sports and everyday activities. The goal is to enhance quantitative analysis and its applications across the medical, fitness, and high-performance sports sectors by providing improved protocols and devices that can adapt to various physical conditions.

To gather further insights in the scalable application of these technologies, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Integration of sensor technologies in sports and rehabilitation

• Innovations in neuromuscular, physiological, and metabolic assessments

• Biomechanical analysis for enhancing athletic performance

• Development of home-based or remote monitoring systems for patient care

• Protocols for transitioning lab-based assessments to daily life environments

Keywords: functional assessment, sport science and medicine, biomechanics, neuromuscular system, physiology, metabolic system

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.