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What goes up must come down \u2014 and the landings aren’t always\npretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How people come down wrong after a jump is one of many\nuseful things Transylvania University students will learn from a piece of\nequipment that will help keep athletes healthy and in top shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise science program this past Friday installed an\nAMTI force platform, which measures variables like how much power someone’s\nlegs are using to push upward in a jump and how much force is pushing a knee\ninward in a landing \u2014 something that could tear an ACL and bench a player for a\nseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s really a nice piece of equipment,” said JJ\nWallace, assistant professor of health and exercise science. “Outside of\nthe medical community and outside of large sports labs, it’s very rare to see\none of these.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students will be able to gather their own quantitative data\nin the form of numbers and graphs, like a line showing spikes and dips of\nnegative and positive forces against the platform. They can then compare their\nfindings with existing scientific data to see which tissues are in danger of\ninjury. Players will use this information to adjust their training or\nconditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallace plans to teach a Sports Biomechanics course centered\naround the platform during the upcoming May term. Also, students could gather\ndata from sports players before and after a season to see how their training is\naffecting, say, power increases throughout a jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The force plate also has a camera that can show with arrows\nwhether or not a person\u2019s center of pressure is running up from the ground\nthrough the hip in a straight line. (It could be bad if it isn\u2019t.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There are a lot of different things that we could look\nat,” Wallace said. “It’s a great teaching tool.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not just something you read about it in a book \u2014 you\u2019re\nseeing for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it’s invaluable for students who want to go\ninto the rehabilitation sciences, because they’re going to have to know what\nabnormal and normal forces are in tissues,” Wallace said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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