San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia has received for his work Compendium of Kineanthropometry, the award for Best Health Ideas of the Year in paragraph Solidarity and patronage, which delivers the newspaper Diario Médico.
The director of the Master's Degree in Sport Traumatology UCAM, and one of the coordinators manual, Francisco Esparza, has been commissioned to collect the award.
"This award is recognition of a collective, to an environment, the support offered by UCAM, thanks to which you may go out projects like this," the doctor has said Esparza, who has highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of this work in which nurses have participated, anthropologists and graduates in physical education among many other disciplines.
Kinanthropometry
Francisco Esparza Kinanthropometry-defined topic that underlies the winning-as scientific expertise related to measurement of the human being, taking body measurements.
"The most classic is the weight and height, but there are many more. We can measure segments, the perimeter of the abdomen, the chest circumference ... All these techniques are performed through a protocol and widely accepted internationally, said the director of the Master's Degree in Sport Traumatology UCAM.
Similarly, Dr. Esparza has asserted, that once you know the length of arm, leg, the perimeter of the skull, "about some 59 measures," he qualified, you can find many human conditions that can be applied to sports, nutrition and health, among others.
The coordinator stressed that the manual has been geared Kineanthropometry from its beginnings to the sport, "but can be applied to many areas of life," he qualified, and added that "This is maybe why Kineanthropometry Compendium has been chosen as a good idea, since it includes many fields of human life such as nutrition, health, or architecture, among others "
Source: UCAM