THE INSTITUT CATALÀ DEL PEU COLLABORATES WITH THE EUNCET UNIVERSITY.

The Institut Català del Peu, through its Department of Biomechanics, Fitmetric, collaborates in the grade of “Science and technologies applied in sport and in physical fitting-out” from the Euncet University, in the subject of Biomechanics and, specifically, in the practice of the subject. Fitmetric provides to students its experience and technology in order to practice everything they have learnt in the module of theory from the subject of Biomechanics. This is about a collaboration throughout some sessions of practice in which students will have the material of biomechanic analysis to practice the theoretical knowledge they have acquired. Students will live the experience about how a biomechanic study is carried out, from putting into effect the technology, going through the training of the sportsman and the execution of the test, until the carrying out of a report and the analysis of results. They will be able to know all the process which entails to carry out a biomechanic study, to use the technology, to learn to put markers and the electromyography, to identify technical faults we find and why, etc. They will have available all the knowledge we can transmit them, from the most technical and technological ones to that knowledge related to protocols of functional assessment. We think it is a very motivating plan for the student, because not all the grades related to sport can count on a practical training with advanced biomechanic technologies, due to the high cost of this kind of technologies and the need of having a teaching staff on knowledge, as well as the applicability of this kind of technologies. These ones are usually found in studies or trainings of master’s degree level or others more specialized out of the grades. In this sense, these students will count on a certain advantage with this collaboration, mainly for those ones who have a special interest and motivation to specialize in this field. In Fitmetric, we expect to motivate and to transmit to students what biomechanics can do for our sportsmen, such as we live it and work in this sense every day. We hope to find students with a real vocation and interest in this field and to be able to interact with them on a next future in this professional sphere, which is on the increase.