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HL20533: Biomechanics and motor control

[Page last updated: 21 September 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 300
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: EX60CW25PR15
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Assessment detail for this unit will be available shortly.
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take HL10521 AND take HL10522 AND take HL10524
Aims: To enhance comprehension and analysis of how humans perceive, generate and control posture and movement.
To develop practical and critical skills for the measurement and assessment of biomechanical and motor control issues in applied scenarios.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Describe and analyse the contribution of the neuro-musculo-skeletal system to movement generation and control in sport, health and exercise contexts;
  2. Select and use current equipment and experimental techniques to measure human motion and its causes, assessing implications of the choices made;
  3. Identify and apply appropriate theories and data processing techniques to address, interpret and analyse the features and causes of human movement;
  4. Apply numeracy skills and skilled use of scientific communication to describe and discuss issues related to human movement.


Content:
  • Motor behaviour, perception and sensorimotor control.
  • Action and movement; neuromuscular activation and control; perceptual motor systems; receptors and mechanisms of perception; relationship between perception and motor control in reflexes and volitional movements.
  • Motor learning: definition; stages and assessment of learning; effects of practice and feedback on learning.
  • Linear and angular kinematics: laws of motion; relationship between linear and angular quantities.
  • Linear and angular kinetics: force and moment; inertia; linear and angular momentum; work; energy; power; relationship between kinetic quantities.
  • Current methods and tools for the kinematic and kinetic analysis of human posture and movement in sport, health and exercise science.


Programme availability:

HL20533 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-ACB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AAB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AFM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-ACM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AAM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)

Notes:

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