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Verheul, J, Harper, D and Robinson, MA (2024) Forces experienced at different levels of the musculoskeletal system during horizontal decelerations. Journal of Sports Sciences, 42 (23). pp. 2242-2253. ISSN 0264-0414
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Abstract
Horizontal decelerations are frequently performed during team sports and are closely linked to sports performance and injury. This study aims to provide a comprehensive description of the kinetic demands of decelerations at the whole-body, structural, and tissue-specific levels of the musculoskeletal system. Team-sports athletes performed maximal-effort horizontal decelerations whilst full-body kinematics and ground reaction forces (GRFs) were recorded. A musculoskeletal model was used to determine whole-body (GRFs), structural (ankle, knee, and hip joint moments and contact forces), and tissue (twelve lower-limb muscle forces) loads. External GRFs in this study, especially in the horizontal direction, were up to six times those experienced during accelerated or constant-speed running reported in the literature. To cope with these high external forces, large joint moments (hip immediately after touchdown; ankle and knee during mid and late stance) and contact forces (ankle, knee, hip immediately after touchdown) were observed. Furthermore, eccentric force requirements of the tibialis anterior, soleus, quadriceps, and gluteal muscles were particularly high. The presented loading patterns provide the first empirical explanations for why decelerating movements are amongst the most challenging in team sports and can help inform deceleration-specific training prescription to target horizontal deceleration performance, or fatigue and injury resistance in team-sports athletes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Lower Extremity; Musculoskeletal System; Muscle, Skeletal; Ankle Joint; Hip Joint; Knee Joint; Humans; Running; Deceleration; Adult; Male; Young Adult; Biomechanical Phenomena; Team Sports; Braking performance; joint loading; muscle forces; musculoskeletal demands; Humans; Biomechanical Phenomena; Muscle, Skeletal; Deceleration; Male; Running; Hip Joint; Young Adult; Team Sports; Ankle Joint; Lower Extremity; Knee Joint; Adult; Musculoskeletal System; Musculoskeletal; Injuries and accidents; Humans; Biomechanical Phenomena; Muscle, Skeletal; Deceleration; Male; Running; Hip Joint; Young Adult; Team Sports; Ankle Joint; Lower Extremity; Knee Joint; Adult; Musculoskeletal System; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Sport Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport and Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2024 14:48 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2024 14:48 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/02640414.2024.2428086 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25151 |
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