This edited collection presents cutting-edge research material on sports biomechanics from many of the leading international academics in the field. Covering a wide range of sports, including basketball, baseball and martial arts, the book addresses the key contemporary themes in the discipline. The thirty-seven chapters presented are divided into nine sections: biomechanics of fundamental human movement modelling, simulation and optimisation biomechanics of the neuro-musculo-skeletal system sports injuries, orthopaedics and rehabilitation the application of electromyography in movement studies biomechanical analysis of the internal load methods and instrumentation training paediatric and geriatric exercise International Research in Sports Biomechanics therefore represents an invaluable reference for sports biomechanists and sports science departments worldwide.