Sports Science & Physiotherapy

Widely used in sports science, motion capture can show sports people areas of improvement and so enhance performance whilst also preventing injury. Golf expert, David Blair, who presents a golf programme on Sky Digital, will be using motion capture technology for a training video highlighting how to perfect your golf swing. A golf swing as a movement needs one hand on top of the other in order to hold the golf club properly. With some motion capture systems this means a marker is obscured, skewing the result.

By showing up areas of risk or bad habits, motion analysis can help to prevent injury in the first place and can aid rehabilitation should injury occur.