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Biomechanics covers research into the analysis of movement in sport, to avoid injury and improve performance.

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Pelvis-Trunk coordination strategies differ a cross preparatory court movement distances during the tennis forehand
Xiangwei Meng, Youngsuk Kim, Shuai Wang, Sukwon Kim, Ming Li
Hybrid contour and geometric partitioning for accurate plantar foot region segmentation
Shumei Zhang, Xi Liang, Minmin Wu, Weiming Gu
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Lower limb joints’ contributions to ballet turnout during unipodal and bipodal jumps in fifth position in pre-professional dancers
Luciana C. Manfrim, Maria Isabel V. Orselli, Bianca M. Portela, Matheus O. Moutinho, Paolo Caravaggi, Isabel C.N. Sacco
Instability core training vs traditional core training on trunk strength and sprint performance among athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jianxin Gao, Dan Liu, Jiahua Zhu, Qi Guo, Xiaopeng Wang

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Footfall patterns and stride parameters of Common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) on land
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Changes in sprint performance and sagittal plane kinematics after heavy resisted sprint training in professional soccer players
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Predicting continuous ground reaction forces from accelerometers during uphill and downhill running: a recurrent neural network solution
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26 November 2025
Pelvis-Trunk coordination strategies differ a cross preparatory court movement distances during the tennis forehand
Xiangwei Meng, Youngsuk Kim, Shuai Wang, Sukwon Kim, Ming Li
Lower limb joints’ contributions to ballet turnout during unipodal and bipodal jumps in fifth position in pre-professional dancers
Luciana C. Manfrim, Maria Isabel V. Orselli, Bianca M. Portela, Matheus O. Moutinho, Paolo Caravaggi, Isabel C.N. Sacco

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Applications and limitations of current markerless motion capture methods for clinical gait biomechanics
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