Biomechanical Analysis for Performance

Running Form, Technique and Efficiency Assessment

Balanced biomechanics, form, and technique are key factors to running faster, more efficiently, and injury-free. Correct running form ensures that we create and maintain linear momentum, reduce joint impact, minimize energy loss and maximize efficiency and economy.

Many of us have never been taught how to run. We think its something that we pick-up naturally and we don’t realise until the pain begins that we are actually running inefficiently which can lead to injuries.
With sprinters, middle and long distance runners, small corrections to stride frequency or stride length can translate into a faster runner. Simple things like the way the upper body moves in conjunction with the lower body can cause you to slow down. The same principles apply to footballers, rugby players or other multidirectional sports, where the specific characteristics of how the sport is played, causes athletes to adopt inefficient biomechanics and cause muscle imbalances.

How can we help you?

When you come in for a biomechanical analysis we analyse your walking, running, and sprinting mechanics based on your sport or pastime.  We analyse your body position and look at the history of injury if any or muscle imbalances, look at your functional strength and your foot speed. All of this is done with the aid of video analysis. This highlights to us areas of weakness, incorrect technique, differences in stride length or frequency and other weaknesses, that may contribute to the development of injury and or deficits in performance. We will take you through your technique in slow motion and highlight any changes that need to be corrected.

We then give you advice and recommendations on how to correct any weaknesses and we introduce exercises that will address incorrect technique improve efficiency, comfort and speed while running.

Biomechanical limitations are addressed including stride length, frequency, upper body position, foot speed, strength and flexibility.

What does it involve?

Analysis
This takes place on our high speed performance treadmill. Your running will be recordeddigitally from different angles and it will then be transferred to our computer analysispackage.

Feedback
Using our analysis package Dartfish we will then review your running technique to show you where improvements can be made and where current faults lie. This package allows us to slow down your running, overlay markers and many other features to clearly show you what you need to do to run faster and more efficiently.

Reports
After the Biomechanical Analysis has taken place your performance specialist will write a report of your session and this will be sent to you in the post along with a copy of the video footage taken during the session.