The Development of Balance Training and Gait Rehabilitation
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 562
Special Issue Editors
Interests: movement variability; behavioral biodynamics; movement rehabilitation; practice variability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rehabilitation is a process that aims to return the competing athlete to sport as quickly and safely as possible. Given the rise in annual medical costs associated with injury management, recovery from injury or trauma demands efficient, timely, and highly reproducible rehabilitation practices. Whether such optimized training originates from traditional approaches (therapist-based approaches, manual exercises, etc.) or through advanced technology (virtual reality, body-worn sensors, robot-assisted gait training), the innovation of balance and gait rehabilitation can improve the duration and quality of motor recovery. This Special Issue aims to explore the development or use of innovative balance training and gait rehabilitation in the context of injury recovery and pathologies as it relates to sports performance, medicine, and/or public health issues (e.g., prosthetics, aging, disease). Encompassing this wide breadth of rehabilitation topics has a potential generalization effect across diverse population groups, with the opportunity of positive outcomes being further explored. We invite submissions related to balance and gait rehabilitation that range from traditional to applied settings, from practical to advanced technologies, or from acute to chronic injury scenarios. Original articles, reviews, case studies, short reports, and opinion pieces are welcome.
Dr. Adam King
Dr. Jennifer Yentes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gait
- balance
- injury recovery
- functional
- neurophysiological
- psychological
- biomechanical
- rehabilitation
- sports medicine
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