Dear Colleagues,

Sport performance could be considered the best resultant of a complex interaction between the biological system and the sport environment. Physiological activities in the Newtonian context manifest primarily as movement, spatial displacement or static and dynamic postural maintenance in the gravity field exerting muscle contractions and dynamic actions related to the living needs.

Ergonomics, a term coined by Jastrzebowski in 1857 and successively proposed in the current meaning by Murrel in 1949, is a multidisciplinary science aimed at studying functions and interactions between biological factors and work environments to obtain the best result in terms of performance respecting the worker’s health.

Ergonomics in sport emerged out of a necessity to understand how to optimize human performance while avoiding the breakdown of physical, physiological and psychological resources. In this context, technology plays an important and necessary role in neuromuscular and metabolic assessment of sport performance, in comfort design of adequate sport equipment and in the research of materials related to the security and safety during sport activities and in higher-risk sports.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is addressed to the investigations of the most modern technologies adopted to assess the limiting factors of performance in the various sports disciplines, the optimal training load and the functional recovery of injured athletes.

Prof. Dr. Annino Giuseppe
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Bonaiuto
Dr. Anas R. Alashram
Guest Editors

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• design for ergonomics
• ergonomics in healthcare
• human factors
• athlete safety
• injury prevention
• sport technologies
• sport technologies
• biomechanics for sport equipment design
• sport performance assessment
• neuromuscular system assessment
• metabolic assessment
• training load assessment