Unit details

SSEH3355 Biomechanical Principles

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 1	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Semester 1	Online	Online Restricted

Content

This unit provides a study of current biomechanical methodology used in the analysis of human motion, with particular focus on video-based methods for the two-dimensional analysis of sporting and clinical populations. Theoretical principles and methodologies underpinning dynamometry is also addressed. Students develop skill sets surrounding; the development of appropriate research questions; data collection practices and analysis; and report writing. The unit includes lectures, laboratories and a major group project.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) critically appraise biomechanics literature; (2) collect and analyse video data using 2D biomechanical software and force platform data; (3) understand the mechanical basis to how muscles produce force and body segments move; (4) undertake a project and prepare a conference poster that integrates related literature with the collected data. This will require students to work cooperatively in research design, data collection, analysis, conference poster preparation; (5) present research findings to the class in a small team setting; and (6) propose meaningful interventions to prevent injury, rehabilitate from disease or injury and/or enhance performance as necessary.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) mid-semester examination; (2) group project; and (3) conference poster creation. Further information is available in the unit outline.

For units commencing in May 2022 or later the availability of the supplementary assessment is subject to confirmation.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Machar Reid

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of one Unit(s) SSEH2250 Biomechanics in Sport and Exercise or level 2 Unit(s) PHYS2xxx or level 2 Unit(s) ENSC2xxx

Co-requisites:

Nil

Incompatibility:

Nil

Contact hours

lectures: 2 hours per week; labs/practicals: 2 hours per week (formal and informal lab times)

Texts

No formally prescribed text but recommended texts include:

Bartlett, R. Sports Biomechanics: Preventing Injury and Improving Performance: Taylor & Francis 1999

Peyton, C. and Bartlett, R. Biomechanical Evaluation of Movement in Sport and Exercise: the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Guidelines. TJ International Ltd 2008

Hong, Y. and Bartlett, R. Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science: Routledge 2010

Winter, D. A. Biomechanics of Human Movement, 2nd edn: John Wiley & Son 1990