Movement specialists approach their athlete’s and patient’s needs with strategies that require competent and avant-garde reasoning based on the information that operators seek and infer from the evaluation proposed to the athletes and/or to the patients when he/she requests a professional intervention.
Universities follow internationally recognized training programs that allow professionals to exchange ideas and share information in a common language that allows them to grow and progress with new ideas and experiences brought to everyone’s attention.
It is therefore important that the evaluation’s data are accurate, truthful, and reliable.
So far, sports scientists have made use of technology more than physiotherapists for the study of movement parameters both in the clinic and during exercises in the gym or outdoors, but with the exchange of ideas and with the growth of the community of professionals in the sector of training and rehab, the need is growing to have tools capable of answering questions that professionals ask themselves.
Questions like these:
- if the external environment represents a space with larger landmarks, how does my patient’s coordination change?
- during the walk, how long is my athlete’s stride?
- how much force does my patient apply to each step?
- considering the force impressed on the ground at each step, is the intensity of the exercise proposed to get him used to the activities of daily life correct or not sufficient?
- how can I understand whether this device is reliable or not?
REMOT has collected the requests of professionals and also the attention dedicated to the study of metrics in university courses for physiotherapists and sports scientists.
REMOT project focused on understanding the advantages and limitations of the technology currently available to be able to create solutions capable of measuring in an outdoor environment with greater accuracy.
This is to provide movement professionals with information as accurate as possible concerning what has so far been evaluated indirectly and with many, too many doubts regarding the choices to be made and which represents the success or failure of athletic preparation, a rehabilitation process.
Guglielmo Formichella