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FUNCTIONAL
ASSESSMENT
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BIOMECHANICS
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MEMBERS AND COLLABORATORS
Name |
Category |
E-mail |
José G. Villa Vicente (Coord) |
CU Educación Física y
Deportiva ULE |
jg.villa@unileon.es |
Pilar Sánchez Collado |
CU Fisiología |
psanc@unileon.es |
Juan García López |
CU
Educación Física y Deportiva ULE |
juan.garcía@unileon.es |
Juan
Carlos Morante Rábago |
TU
Educación Física y Deportiva ULE |
jc.morante@unileon.es |
José Antonio Rodríguez Marroyo |
TU
Educación Física y Deportiva ULE |
j.marroyo@unileon.es |
Jesús Angel
Seco Calvo |
TU Fisioterapia
ULE |
jesus.seco@unileon.es |
David Suárez Iglesias |
Ayte Doctor Educación Física y Deportiva ULE |
dsuai@unileon.es |
OBJECTIVES
1.
To monitor and quantify the
intensity of effort, assessing fatigue and exercise-induced muscle
damage, and assess health-related physical fitness, as well as
physical fitness for training and sports performance |
2.
To analyze biomechanical and
ergonomic aspects of
work
and exercise performance |
3.
To design software, apply new
technologies and analyze the technical and tactical elements of
training and athletic performance |
ACTIVITIES
Sport and Exercise Medicine specialists, Physical Activity
and Sport Science graduates, and physiotherapists are
involved in this unit. From its inception, there have been
close collaborations with PhD Programs, postgraduate
courses, as well as research projects of national interest
(Plan Nacional de I+D+I, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias),
regional (Junta de Castilla y León) and provincial (Diputación
de León, Universidad de León), and research contracts with
multinational pharmaceutical companies, state-owned
companies, national companies, societies, clubs, sports
entities, associations,…
Unit members collaborate with other research groups from
University of Valladolid, University of Alcalá and
University of the Balearic Islands
in the context of both a preventive and therapeutic
biomedical assessment of muscle damage and fatigue induced
by the practice of sport and physical activity as well as
diseases or injuries. They also participate with the
University of Zaragoza, Polytechnic University of Madrid,
and University of Castile–La Mancha in research studies that
examined the relationship between physical activity and
health in different population groups (children, adults and
elderly), or with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
(USA) in order to quantify training load and ratings of
perceived exertion.
Other members maintain collaboration in a clinical or
hospital setting for functional assessment of new techniques
and physiotherapy methods to improve health-related quality
of life in people with chronic conditions and disabilities.
Within the multidisciplinary field, they share common ground
with the assessment of the relationship between Sport and
Physical Activity and Health through a multiple-perspective
approach, regarding methodologies that has been used,
applied or designed. Its lines of research are obtaining
interesting results by responding to the demands raised by
the various multidisciplinary companies that have signed
research contracts (clubs or sports companies; mutual
insurance companies, …), besides obtaining patents and
properties registered in the Land Registry. The unit is also
contributing extensively to disseminate information through
publication and participation in numerous books and
important biomedical manuals and journals. The lines of
research are:
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Functional assessment of training and sports
performance.
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Functional assessment of physical fitness in
relation to health and quality of life.
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Determination of energy expenditure (field
and laboratory testing) of sport and job
activities, and the effectiveness of
exercise programs.
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Sport and Exercise Medicine
and
Occupational Medicine.
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Determination of body composition,
assessment of nutritional status and
ergogenic aids.
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Design of tests, technical and tactical
models and technological applications for
monitoring biomechanical, physiological
variables,... and supporting exercise and
sport training and formation for trainers.
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Biomechanical analysis of human factors and
ergonomics and sports performance.
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Physiotherapy assessment of damage and
dysfunction related to both training and
sports performance and ergonomic,
occupational and clinical enhancement.
METHODOLOGY
TYPES OF STUDIES
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Standardized and validated exercise stress
tests and physical fitness tests that evaluate the relationship among
physical activity, health and quality of
life.
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Descriptive study of physical effort or
exercise performed in a laboratory or its
natural setting by monitoring physiological
and biomechanical variables and management
of clinical, biochemical, physical
indicators,...
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Design and innovation of technological
applications that analyze problems of
different nature: physiological or
pathological, sports and exercise-related or
work-related; disability or dysfunction,...
METHODS
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Determination of the physical work capacity (VO2max).
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Identification of the ventilatory thresholds
(aerobic and anaerobic).
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Determination of lactic acid and other plasma
biochemical markers of physical fitness,
fatigue and injury.
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Determination of the energy cost and daily
continuous monitoring of intensity of
effort.
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Assessment of nutritional status, dietary
supplements and ergogenic aids.
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Body composition analysis.
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Identification of limits of performance and
exercise capacity and physical work
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Assessment tests of physical fitness in relation
to health and quality of life.
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Measurement of displacement
with a
dual beam photocell system.
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Studies with oscillometric devices (force
platforms).
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Studies of anglemetry, goniometry and torquimetry
by computer systems.
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Gait and Movement Analysis by computer graphics
systems and 3D systems.
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Design methodology and validation of application
specific software in the field of sports
training.
TECHNOLOGICAL OFFER
1. Exercise stress tests with
expired gas analysis and electrocardiogram monitoring and blood
pressure in different types of ergometers, indirect calorimetry,
spirometry, body composition analysis, lactacidemy, analysis of
workload and energy expenditure using accelerometry and heart rate
monitoring, determination of energy expenditure and nutritional
assessment, heart rate variability. |
2.
Biomechanical analysis of
bycicle pedalling and running. Biomechanical analysis of other
activities (human gait,...). |
3.
Design and development of
software and specific technological innovations in the field of
physical activity and sport. |
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
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Rearfoot
striking runners are more economical than midfoot
strikers. Ogueta-Alday A, Rodríguez-Marroyo JA,
García-López J. Medicine and Science in Sports and
Exercise: 46, 580-585, 2014.
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A long-term
physical activity training program increases strength
and flexibility, and improves balance in older adults.
Seco J, Abecia LC, Echevarría E, Barbero I, Torres-Unda
J, Rodriguez V, Calvo JI. Rehabilitation Nursing: 38,
37-47, 2013.
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Sitting time
increases the overweight and obesity risk independently
of walking time in elderly people from Spain.
Gómez-Cabello A, Pedrero-Chamizo R, Olivares PR,
Hernández-Perera R, Rodríguez-Marroyo JA, Mata E, et al.
Maturitas: 7, 337-343, 2012.
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Harmonization process and reliability assessment of
anthropometric measurements in the elderly EXERNET multi-centre
study. Gómez-Cabello A, Vicente-Rodríguez G, Albers U,
Mata E, Rodriguez-Marroyo JA, Olivares PR, et al. PLoS
One: 7(7): e41752, 2012.
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The
prognostic value of catastrophizing for predicting the
clinical evolution of low back pain patients: a study in
routine clinical practice within the Spanish National
Health Service. Kovacs FM, Seco J, Royuela A, Corcoll-Reixach
J, Peña-Arrebola A, Spanish Back Pain Research Network.
Spine Journal: 12, 545-555, 2012.
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Prevalence
of overweight and obesity in non-institutionalized
people aged 65 or over from Spain: the elderly EXERNET
multi-centre study. Gómez-Cabello A, Pedrero-Chamizo R,
Olivares PR, Luzardo L, Juez-Bengoechea A, Mata E, et
al. Obesity Reviews: 12, 583-592, 2011.
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Physical and
thermal strain of firefighters according to the
firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires.
Rodríguez-Marroyo JA, Villa JG, López-Satue J, Pernía R,
Carballo B, García-López J, et al. Ergonomics: 54,
1101-1108, 2011.
CONTACT
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