Effect of Varying Footwear and Throw Pattern on the Joint Contact Force of the Knee in Football Athletes
Abstract
The most common site of running-related injury in athletes is the knee joint, or patellofemoral interface. Therefore, lower-extremity biomechanics is extensively studied in order to understand the factors that contribute to injury at this site. The project objective is to investigate the effect of footwear type and throw pattern on the patellofemoral contact force in football athletes. Footwear condition of an athlete while running has been shown to be a significant factor affecting biomechanical forces. Thus, it is of particular interest to identify how changing footwear will specifically affect football players and the internal knee forces they experience. Additionally, other factors such as football throw type will be analyzed to determine if certain throw patterns have the ability to increase or decrease the patellofemoral contact force in an athlete. Investigating how these factors contribute to the internal forces football athletes experience would provide a solid basis to relate specific practices to injury types. Cadaver studies focusing on the patellofemoral joint have led to the development of mathematical models that help estimate the internal contact force. This project will use these models in order to further explore how the knee contact force is affected by footwear and throw pattern. Body kinematics will be investigated using primarily motion capture technology.
Subject
BiomechanicsMotion Capture
Vicon
Knee joint
Football athletes
Patellofemoral Site
Running Injury
Sports Injury
Biomedical Engineering
Citation
Franke, Madeline A (2020). Effect of Varying Footwear and Throw Pattern on the Joint Contact Force of the Knee in Football Athletes. Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /175416.