Sport Biomechanics Discipline:

It deals with laws of mechanics in sport movements and skills, analysis of action and reaction of internal and external forces to the body for improving success of using sport skills by individuals. The importance of this discipline is related to its techniques and it has a direct relationship with it; so that to achieve success and implement the correct techniques, biomechanics rules should be followed and studied as well.

This field contributes greatly to understanding the mechanical quality and the process of motor control in life and descriptive and quantitative analysis of basic to complex sport movements.

This discipline in spite of having 4 sub-disciplines as: Basic biomechanics sport, Sport performance biomechanics, Sport biomechanics and rehabilitation, Biomechanics and engineering sport, it only exists with the name of biomechanics in universities. Sport biomechanics with assessment of anthropometry aspects, biomechanical analysis of sport skills, the ability to design fitness program in sport fields with respect to physical principles, plays an important role in body composition, improving the sport skills of athletes and thus improving their performance and advancement of the proper implementation of sport skills.

The universities of Bu-Ali Sina, Mazandaran, Esfahan, Tehran, Bahonar of Kerman, Mohaghegh Ardabili, and Kharazmi have MA student admission in this discipline. Only the universities of Bu-Ali Sina, Mazandaran, and Kharazmi have PhD student admission.

MA students of this discipline would pass 32 credits totally including: 6 elective credits,14 specialized credits, 6 basic credits, and 6 credits for the thesis.

The specialized and basic subjects of this field are as follows:

Statistics and research methods in sport biomechanics

Muscle mechanics

Joint mechanics

Applied sport biomechanics

Neuromuscular system physiology

Sport injuries biomechanics

Sport biomechanics 1 & 2

Sport biomechanics laboratory

Seminar

Dr. Nader Farahpour (Professor), Dr. Mehrdad Anbarian (Professor), and Dr. Mahboubeh Alemzaheh (Assistant Professor) are faculty members of Bu-Ali Sina University in this discipline.

Sport pathology corrective movement discipline:

It directly works on rehabilitation and kinesiotherapy. Detection and diagnosis of anomalies of musculoskeletal system and pain arising from it which has been epidemic by changing life style, providing movement and rehabilitation methods to relieve musculoskeletal deformities, and promoting health of individuals proportional to them are the most important functions of this discipline.

Recently with the efforts exerted by the custodians of this discipline, post graduate students of this discipline by teacher training courses of corrective movements and receiving confirmation of establishing the corrective movement clubs, can legally establish corrective movement clubs and play their role in improving the health of the community.

This discipline has the following 3 sub-disciplines:

1. Corrective movements

2. Athletic training

3. Special physical education (disabled sports)

Bu-Ali University admits students in the sub-discipline of corrective movements.

According to the booklet published by The National Organization for Educational Testing in 2019, the universities which have student admission in this discipline are, in alphabetical order (in Persian), as follows:

Arak Unersity, Orumieh University, Shahid Bahonar University, Bu-Ali Sina University, Tehran University, Kharazmi University of Tehran, Razi University of Kermanshah, Allameh Tabatabaee University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and Gilan University. Among them, in alphabetical order, the university of Esfahan, Bahonar, Bu-Ali Sina, Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Kharazmi of Tehran, and Gilan admit students at PhD level as well.

MA students would pass 32 credits totally including: 6 elective credits,14 specialized credits, 6 basic credits, and 6 credits for the thesis.

All the subjects except the thesis in this discipline are as follows:

Advanced statistics

Research methods

Advanced kinesiology

Advanced athletic training

Ergonomics in sport

Advanced corrective movements

Central nervous system physiology

Advanced rehabilitation of pathology

pathokinesiology

Corrective movements and pathology laboratory

Contemporary issues in corrective movements

Seminar

Principles of corrective movement planning

PhD students of this discipline would pass 36 credits totally including 6 elective credits,14 specialized credits, 6 basic credits, and 6 credits for the thesis.

All of the subjects except the thesis are as follows:

Advanced statistics and research methods in bioscience

Neuromuscular system kinesiopathology

Advanced corrective movements

Situational anomalies pathomechanics

The principles of corrective movement planning

Advanced laboratory techniques

Seminar

Internship and advanced pathology

Dr. Ali Yalfani (associate professor) and Dr. Farzaneh Saki (assistant professor) are two faculty members of this discipline at Bu-Ali Sina University.