Recent Applications of Computer-Assisted Technologies in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dear Colleagues,

Diverse aspects of movement, measurement of strength, assessment of dexterity, precision, and coordination, motor learning, physiological response to effort, and detection of individual traits may be used in sport to set realistic goals, optimize training, and detect limitations and errors. The common ground of sports medicine and rehabilitation is the diagnosis, therapy planning, and evaluation of rehabilitation processes. Realization of these goals may and should exploit the ever-increasing stream of data from multisensor measuring systems, both external and body-bound, providing objective, reliable, and precise information. However, the sheer amount of data practically precludes any efficient analysis of raw data by a researcher themselves, and a variety of computer-assisted technologies must be applied to extract useful information. Furthermore, multimedia transmission allows both gaining field data and setting supervised remote training or rehabilitation exercises. Virtual reality and gaming may add much wanted attractiveness to often onerous daily exercises.

We invite researchers active in this vast and growing field to share their experiences, both as original research papers and as reviews and concept papers.

Dr. Wiktor Niewiadomski
Guest Editor

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