Methods
The study consists of active college-aged students with no significant joint injury and not currently participating in a neuromuscular training program. The participants will be assigned to an external, internal, or control group. The study is a pre to post-intervention study with interventions lasting 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week. All participants will undergo Pre- and Post-Testing including Neuroimaging and Biomechanical Tests.
fMRI Data
Functional MRI neuroimaging sequences will show any brain structure changes along with brain structural and functional networks. The fMRI data contains T1 structural images, fMRI images during a motor task, resting-state fMRI, and diffusion tensor imaging (which is an MRI-based neuroimaging technique which makes it possible to estimate the location, orientation, and anisotropy of the brain’s white matter tracts.)
Biomechanics Test and Motor Transfer Testing …show more content…
Biomechanical data consist of participant's left leg (including foot, ankle, and thigh) connected with sensors while performing 2 different jumps. Also, a transfer motor test of a single leg jumping and landing task will be measured pre and post-training. Only after the 8-week training, for both the external and internal groups a motor transfer testing will be conducted with HTC Vive. The motor test consists of the participant being placed in a virtual environment (HTC Vive) and asked to jump, and “catch” a virtual ball, and land on a single limb. The single leg jump and land exercise along with the HTC Vive trials will asses
The study consists of active college-aged students with no significant joint injury and not currently participating in a neuromuscular training program. The participants will be assigned to an external, internal, or control group. The study is a pre to post-intervention study with interventions lasting 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week. All participants will undergo Pre- and Post-Testing including Neuroimaging and Biomechanical Tests.
fMRI Data
Functional MRI neuroimaging sequences will show any brain structure changes along with brain structural and functional networks. The fMRI data contains T1 structural images, fMRI images during a motor task, resting-state fMRI, and diffusion tensor imaging (which is an MRI-based neuroimaging technique which makes it possible to estimate the location, orientation, and anisotropy of the brain’s white matter tracts.)
Biomechanics Test and Motor Transfer Testing …show more content…
Biomechanical data consist of participant's left leg (including foot, ankle, and thigh) connected with sensors while performing 2 different jumps. Also, a transfer motor test of a single leg jumping and landing task will be measured pre and post-training. Only after the 8-week training, for both the external and internal groups a motor transfer testing will be conducted with HTC Vive. The motor test consists of the participant being placed in a virtual environment (HTC Vive) and asked to jump, and “catch” a virtual ball, and land on a single limb. The single leg jump and land exercise along with the HTC Vive trials will asses