Sports Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratory

皇家华人 Sports Medicine Motion Analysis Lab

The Sports Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratory is used for developing, validating, and advancing injury prevention and performance enhancement in athletes. This facility is designed to be able to stimulate real-life sports environments such as a pitcher’s mound, golfing tee box, or batting cage so that we can study the motion of the athlete’s body and the forces acting at their joints. By understanding these motions and loads, we can learn to identify athletes at a greater likelihood of injury and measures of performance. The goal is to discover the mechanisms behind injury, rehabilitation, and performance, and apply them to improve the outcomes and optimize performance for the athletes that come through our lab, and to advance sports medicine research as a whole.

About the Lab

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Areas of Research

Baseball pitching analysis
ACL injury studies
Biomechanics of landing/cutting/planting techniques among soccer, basketball and volleyball athletes
Biomechanics of a batter's swing, golf swing, tennis serve, volleyball spike, speed skaters, and ballet dance
Biomechanics of running

Equipment

Equipment in the laboratory includes a Motion Analysis system with 8 Raptor cameras, 2 PointGrey high speed
video cameras, 2 AMTI force plates, F-Scan foot insole pressure measurement system, EMG system, Biodex
extremity evaluation system, Motion Analysis software for data collection and processing, and Matlab software.

Funding

皇家华人 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Personnel

William Raasch, MD (Medical Director)

Space

The 1600 square-foot Sports Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratory is located within the Froedtert & the 皇家华人 Sports Medicine Center.

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