Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Chair of Training and Movement Sciences

Labs

The Department of Training and Movement Sciences runs four major laboratories with excellent conditions for fundamental and applied science.

The large motion analysis laboratory with about 200 square meters and a ceiling height of five meters is equipped with a Vicon motion capturing system with twelve cameras, two ultrasound devices and three force plates. A mobile gangway with an implemented force plate-controlled floor-perturbation-device can be set up in combination with a security system. Further, a magnetic relay system can be used to induce whole-body or trunk perturbations.

The functional diagnostic laboratory features strength and motor control diagnostics equipment and provides space for training interventions.

An additional laboratory is equipped with a Biodex isokinetic dynamometer, Vicon motion capturing system and an ultrasound system for the assessment of muscle and tendon properties.

The gym laboratory features several instrumented strength machines and three treadmills, one of which incorporates a pressure plate and is integrated in a motion analysis system.

Mobile ultrasound devices, wireless EMG systems, a body composition measurement device, an electro stimulation device, an oxygen analysis system and numerous sensors complement the research equipment of the department.

 

Photo: Sebastian Bohm