ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to provide an understanding of some of the other techniques used in the recording and analysis of sports movements, including their advantages and limitations. After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
• understand the uses and limitations of single-plate multiple image photography for recording movement in sport;
• outline the advantages and limitations, for sports movements, of three types of opto-electronic system, and compare these with the advantages and limitations of conventional cinematography and video analysis;
• appreciate how electrogoniometry can be used to record joint motion;
• define the restrictions on the use of both accelerometry and tendon force measurements in sport;
• understand the value of contact pressure measurements in the study of sports movements, and outline the relative advantages and limitations of pressure insoles and pressure platforms and of the three types of pressure transducer used in sports biomechanics;
• appreciate how and why isokinetic dynamometry is used to record the net muscle torque at a joint.
