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DrRene Ferdinands

Honorary Lecturer

Faculty of Medicine and Health

  • Honorary Lecturer
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Dr. Ferdinands also specialises in golf biomechanics, and was the first to develop a full body three-dimensional kinetics and power flow model of the golfer. He was invited to lead a seminar on golf biomechanics at the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports in Ottawa in 2004. He presented a prototype swing model that potentially reduces lower lumbar stresses. He currently supervises Honours and PhD students in biomechanics research projects on cricket (batting, bowling and throwing), equine biomechanics, baseball batting, baseball pitching, golf swing, putting and EEG, pistol shooting, soccer and tennis (serve, forehand and backhand).

Dr. Ferdinands is a member of the Biomechanics research team:

http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/research/biomechanics/index.shtml

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Correction of bowling technique for the prevention of lumbar injury
    Workcover NSW.1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Edwards S,
    • Schaefer A,
    • O'Dwyer NN,
    • Ferdinands ER,
    • O'Dwyer N
  • GRANT
    Hydration status and bowling performance in cricket
    PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Biomechanics of lumbar injury in cricket fast bowlers
    Faculty of Medicine1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ferdinands ER
  • GRANT
    Counter-rotation and spinal loads in fast bowlers
    Cricket Australia1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant: