Definition of Biomechanical Indices Measurable During Sport Movements for the Prevention of Primary and Secondary ACL Injury

Definition of a Set of Biomechanical Indices Non-invasively Measurable During Basic Sport Movements Test Analysis Aimed to the Prevention of Primary and Secondary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

The aim of the study is to define a set of quantitative parameters related to articular biomechanics, which will be evaluated during some specific motor tasks. The goal is the prevention of primary and secondary anterior cruciate ligament injury in athletes.

Specifically, the validation of a new comparative methodology of biomechanics analysis will be performed, based on inertial sensors and musculoskeletal models. This way, brief but exhaustive description of functional characteristics of athletes could be created and easily used in ambulatory environment.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy subjects, men of women, 18 years old minimum and 50 maximum, which read and signed the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• evidence of any kind of musculoskeletal disease or impairment
• evidence of past surgical intervention to either lower or upper limbs
• age out of the inclusion range
• cardiac or pulmonary diseases
• inability to read and sign the informed consent
• inability to perform the motor tasks required