Applications of Sensors in Biomechanics and Biomedicine

Dear Colleagues,

The challenge for healthcare professionals, sports medicine, and researchers is to study diagnosis, prevention, and rehabilitation planning, allowing for personalized approaches tailored to patients' individual needs. Sensors in biomechanics and biomedicine have changed and expanded the possibilities of biomedical analysis and made it possible to compare clinical assessment with objective data. This growing progress in the performance of sensors leads to a steady approach to practical needs. In some cases, new applications of well-known sensors (pressure, glucose, etc.) or the review of health-related indices obtained with these sensors (new relations with ankle-brachial index, etc.) that respond to clinical needs that were not resolved continue to be found. Furthermore, sensors are used to evaluate clinical and sports devices, evaluating their effectiveness and the body's physiological response.

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of advances in applying biomedical or biomechanical sensors. We seek research articles and reviews that provide insight into the new clinical uses, correlation with clinical assessment scales, optimization in biomechanical and biomedical sensors, health-related indices, and evaluation of clinical and sports devices.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Biomechanical and biological sensors in disease assessment, functional diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation.
• Biomechanical and biological sensors in sports medicine.
• Biomechanical and biological sensors for human performance and biometrics.
• Evaluation of clinical and sports devices with sensors.
• Biomechanical and biological sensors to improve clinical care protocols.
• Laboratory experiments to improve the applications of biomechanical and biological sensors.
• Data processing, simulation, and validation of sensors for biomechanics and biomedical applications.

Prof. Dr. Ivan Julian-Rochina
Dr. Jose David Piñeiro Ramos
Dr. Lorenzo Brognara
Guest Editors

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