Posture Video Analysis of Athletes with Locomotor Disabilities, in Tennis Game

Abstract

The game of tennis is one sport approached by people with disabilities in order to maintain the tonicity of the unaffected muscular system. A significant number of them fail notable sports performances and therefore can participate in their dedicated Olympics. In this research, we have developed a methodology for video analysis of various types of specific movements (service, backhand, and forehand) in order to determine the posture comfortable during play tennis. The first part of the paper presented aspects of wheelchairs for athletes that are immobilized locomotor and also mentioned several options for recording and video processing. The second part of the paper is presented the registration methodology that includes the experimental structure, sequence of procedures, and manner of storage and data processing of video sequences. The final part of the paper presents the results of video analysis on two cases of athletes with locomotor disabilities in the game of tennis.