From June 22-24, 2023, the second Sports, Medicine and Health Summit took place in Hamburg, Germany, bringing together physicians, therapists, scientists and athletes. The event emphasized the connection between sports, medicine and health and underlined the importance of a holistic approach to sports and health as well as the need for continuous research and collaboration in these fields.
In this context, our scientific collaborators Scott Wearing and Eva Putz presented recent results of their research. Scott Wearing gave a quarter-hour talk entitled "In vivo measurement of human tendon properties during sports rehabilitation and activities of daily living using transmission-mode ultrasonography". The talk presented a summary of work in recent years in the area of noninvasive measurement of tendon loading using transmission-mode ultrasonography. Tendon load has been measured and compared in several studies during different activities (running, jumping, knee bending) in different subjects. The results of these studies not only provide new insights into the different loading patterns of injured tendons and their interaction with common rehabilitation approaches, but also demonstrate the potential of the technique for functional assessment and monitoring of human tendons in vivo.
Eva Putz presented a poster entitled "Automation of an assessment of patients following hip arthroplasty". She presented the first results of the two-year collaborative research project "SASAT" with the Munich-based company Elmatrix GmbH. Using a newly developed app, patients were guided through a standardized functional test procedure after total hip arthroplasty. At the same time, biomechanical parameters were collected to evaluate loading symmetry in the early phase of rehabilitation. The methodes used showed its great potential for automating standardized assessment procedures. The lack of correlation between the results of the functional test and the loading symmetry shows the necessity of collecting biomechanical values when checking the functional condition of the patients.