A/Prof. Kane Middleton on Biomechanics, Wearables & Motion Capture | PoseIQ™ Interview

A/Prof. Kane Middleton (La Trobe University) joins PoseIQ™ to talk sport & occupational biomechanics—from validating wearables and markerless motion capture in elite environments to a cricket bowling workload project using a multi-instrument approach (instrumented insoles + IMUs + markerless MoCap).
We also dig into ACL injury risk a bit as an example, why implementation and education matter, the need for collaboration across sport science, engineering and coaching, and how to be data-informed (not just data-driven).

🔗 Learn more about Kane: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/kmiddleton

🎙️ Host: Hossein Mokhtarzadeh — PoseIQ™

Highlights:

Consulting with the Boston Red Sox & why “validation” needs nuance

Comparing new tech with marker-based and markerless motion capture

Cricket Victoria project: quantifying bowling loads in context

Why prevention programs struggle with uptake; pairing performance + prevention

Commercialization gaps & funding realities in sport science

Collaboration: biomechanists + skill coaches + engineers + data scientists

Interpreting data into action: being data-informed vs data-driven

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Chapters

00:00 Intro & welcome
00:48 Red Sox role: restructuring & Kane’s consulting focus
01:22 Tech evaluation: “validation,” agreement & comparisons
02:55 Marker-based vs markerless motion capture; wearables
03:58 Problem-first vs tech-first (resources, context, smaller orgs)
04:55 Cricket Victoria project: quantifying bowling workload
05:45 Multi-instrument approach: insoles, IMUs, markerless MoCap
07:00 ACL risk & prevention programs: uptake challenges
08:40 Commercialization gaps & industry-academia dynamics
10:20 Athlete buy-in: linking performance + prevention
12:20 Context matters: where wearables vs markerless shine
14:35 Merging force + kinematics; toward multi-platform solutions
16:15 Education & expertise: interpreting data into action
17:35 Breaking silos; collaboration with skill coaches
18:40 Data-informed (not data-driven)
19:30 Wrap-up & key takeaway: collaboration

#biomechanics #SportScience #HumanPerformance #WearableTech #MotionCapture #LaTrobeUniversity #PoseIQ

“Validate the Tech”
“Future of Biomech”
“Wearables to Wins”
“Cricket Loads, Clearly”