Training and Movement

The two sports science sub-disciplines of training science and exercise science are combined for research and teaching in the Training and Exercise department. In addition, the sports medicine courses are also coordinated in this department and topics for scientific term papers are offered.

In training science research, our current research topics focus on issues relating to the optimization of starting performance in swimming, strength and load training under unstable execution conditions, stretching under different stretching modalities,mobility diagnostics and fitness and coordination training in general .
In the field of movement science, we are currently working on the non-conscious control of action through visual stimuli and their influence on motor reactions, as well as on implicit movement learning. A more detailed explanation of our research activities can be found under the menu item Projects.

In addition to training and movement science, our department is also responsible for the coordination of sports medicine courses, as our institute does not have its own chair of sports medicine. However, in order to ensure sports medicine training at the University of Kassel, the IfSS has been cooperating with the Red Cross Hospital Kassel since 2000 and, in recent years, with the Institute for Prevention and Sports Medicine Bad Wildungen (Dr. Dr. Vater) and the Orthopaedic Clinic Kassel (Prof. Dr. Siebert).

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