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Sports Science

The individuality of a human is not restricted to its personality but also observable in its physical properties. Genetics and life-style affect the individual properties of muscles, tendons, and bones. These properties can be advantageous or disadvantageous for given movement tasks and therefore we observe specialization. Genetic disposition and adaption due to training processes are obvious in high performance sports. It is e.g. well known that top sprinters have an increased amount of fast twitch muscle fibres. Although this is advantageous for a 100 m dash, it is not for endurance tasks because fast twitch muscle fibres fatigue quickly. Besides training, processes like aging or illness affect such structural properties. These properties influence coordination and may decide about success or failure of a movement, independent if this is a high performance task of an athlete or a step on the bus of an elderly person.

The individual properties of muscles and tendons are difficult to obtain directly and the measurement is often painful, like in muscle biopsies or implanted force gauges. In the last years, scientists of the Institute of Sports Science in Graz have developed a method which allows determining the neuro-muscular properties of arm and leg muscles individually with the help of modeling and simulation. The knowledge of the movement-independent properties then allows the prediction of movements by computer simulation.

 

Members:

 

o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Martin Sustao.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Sigrid Thaller

Ass. Prof. Dr. Markus Tilp

 

DissertantInnen:

 

Mag. Iris Binder

Mag. Emanuel Kickmeier

Mag. Andreas Konrad

Mag. Harald Penasso

 

Past and current Projects:

 

EU-grant for regional development: Modelling and simulation of human movement (2009-12)

FWF-project ((P23786): Effects of different stretching protocols on muscle and tendon. (2012-2015)

Em.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat.

Martin Sust

Phone:+43 316 380 - 2326
Fax:+43 (0)316 380 - 9790


Ao.Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dr.phil.

Sigrid Thaller

Fax:+43 (0)316 380 - 9790


Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat.

Markus Tilp

Phone:+43 316 380 - 8332
Fax:+43 (0)316 380 - 9790


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