New methods for mobility performance measurement in wheelchair basketball
Rienk M A van der Slikke (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, TU Delft - Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control)
MAM Berger (The Hague University of Applied Sciences)
DJJ Bregman (TU Delft - Research Funding National)
Dirk Jan H.E.J. Veeger (TU Delft - Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control, TU Delft - Biomechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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Abstract
Increased professionalism in wheelchair sports demand a more precise and quantitative measure of individual wheelchair mobility performance, to allow it to be an evaluation measure of wheelchair setting or training optimization. This research describes the application of an inertial sensor based method for measuring wheelchair kinematics and a factor analysis based selection of outcomes best describing wheelchair mobility performance. This set of kinematic outcomes was analysed for sensitivity towards wheelchair performance differences due to competition level and classification of the match data of 29 wheelchair basketball athletes. The method proved sensitive and is believed to provide a solid basis for a kinematics based definition of wheelchair mobility performance in sports.