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Critically analyse the role of the sports massage therapist within a sports science team, indicating the importance of soft tissue management as part of total athletic care.
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With an elite athlete in mind, discuss the link between whole body biomechanics and the use of sports massage therapy. Critically analyse the role of the sports massage therapist within a sports science team, indicating the importance of soft tissue management as part of total athletic care. A sound knowledge of body biomechanics is essential to comprehensively understand human motion. Biomechanics within kinesiology 'involves the precise description of human movement and study of the causes of human movement' (Knudson, 1961). This area of study concerns the analysis of the function and structure of biological systems. Sports biomechanists are responsible in analysing human performance within a scientific perspective striving to achieve optimal sporting techniques, aid the enhancement of sports equipment and determine stresses imposed on the body during performance to circumvent injury. The importance of biomechanics is prominent within many sporting occupations. This may include a coach developing the most efficient movement...
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