Realize the Goals

From my contribution to today's Performance Analysis Group discussion:

In transition, biomechanical screenings would help prevent injuries, but ideally it is the proactive involvement of the athlete and the design of the training programs that must be suited to prevent injuries. At the foundation, all professions that involve the body must understand the significance of biomechanics, and athletes too must be attached to this knowledge. The paradigm today supports injury, first because education has been too sterile (meaning, compartmentalized and not practical).

It is important that professionals in our field and end-users shift to promoting education and research in the private sector. The competitive market is more aggressive in practicality. From experience, the university setting has many drawbacks for progress; the two most damaging are thinking their knowledge and approach to learning provides the best and only way and being paid to research only and not as a combined effort of research and application.  This comment is to highlight the paradigm.  I am not implying all in the university setting think and act this way.

To transition under our current education model, education must occur early and more comprehensively.  We must promote that learning anatomy, physics, biology, and chemistry have practical power to transform lives and prevent life-changing injuries. Athletes also need to be trained to know their body, not simply to know their sport. This would mean coaches, teachers, and parents too must have a strong grasp to pass this on. We are headed this way. The more we realize the goals, the better we can fulfill them.