Common Movement Patterns of the Jump Shot While Increasing the Distance from the Basket in Elite Basketball Players.

The aim of this study was to examine chosen kinematic variables (duration of the shot, position of the centre of mass, position of the shooting hand, rotation of the shoulder axis) of successful shots and to describe differences in movement patterns in elite basketball players while increasing the distance from the basket during a jump shot. Our participants were three elite shooting guards who were all Slovenian national team and Euroleague players. They were shooting from three different distances (3.

One-legged stance as a representative static body position for calculation of hip contact stress distribution in clinical studies.

It was shown in several clinical studies that static one-legged stance may be a relevant body position to describe the loads acting at the hip. However, the stress distribution averaged during movement may better describe hip load than hip contact stress distribution in the static body position. Using data on the resultant hip force during walking taken from the measurements of Bergmann (2001), spatial distribution of contact stress over the articular surface was calculated by the HIPSTRESS method and compared with the stress distribution in one-legged stance.