Monitoring athletes is essential for improving performance and reducing injury risk in team sports. Current methods to monitor athletes do not include the lower extremities. Attaching multiple inertial measurement units to the lower extremities could improve monitoring athletes in the field.
Bastiaansen, B. J., Wilmes, E., Brink, M. S., de Ruiter, C. J., Savelsbergh, G. J., Steijlen, A., Jansen, K. M., van der Helm, F. C., Goedhart, E. A., van der Laan, D., Vegter, R. J., Lemmink, K. A. An Inertial Measurement Unit Based Method to Estimate Hip and Knee Joint Kinematics in Team Sport Athletes on the Field. J. Vis. Exp. (159), e60857, doi:10.3791/60857 (2020).