HIROSE, Norikazu
Doctoral Program / SPORTS MEDICINE SPECIALIZATION / Athletic Training
- SUBJECTS
- Athletic Training, Injury Prevention, Talent Identification, Growth&Maturation, Soccer
- PROFILE
- After graduating in Sports Sciences from the Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Dr Hirose Norikazu completed a Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. His major research field is athletic training, injury prevention, and growth and development. He has worked as a fitness coach for youth soccer players at several J-League Academy clubs including Verdy Kawasaki (currently Tokyo Verdy), Nagoya Grampus, Kyoto Sanga, and JEF United Ichihara Chiba. Since 2008, he has supported female soccer players, working as a fitness coach for the Japan women’s national football (soccer) team.
- BIOGRAPHY
- 1993-1997 Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University (BHS)
1998-2004 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. (Ph.D)
2006- Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University.
2009- Lecturer
2010- Associate Professor
2015- Professor
2015-2016 Visiting Scholar, Department of Kinesiology, San Jose State University.
Injury prevention:
One of his ongoing studies focuses on preventing hamstring injuries. Hamstrings injury is one of the most susceptible injuries during any sports event. Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) is usually prescribed as a warm-up exercise and rehabilitation for preventing injury or recurrence of injury. Many studies have evident that NHE works for preventing hamstrings injury with elongating fascicle length of the muscle and strengthen eccentric muscular power. However, even trained athletes are not able to perform the conventional NHE at a shallow knee flexion angle. In this regard, using the inclined platform can help athletes to perform the NHE at a shallow knee flexion angle. Assist in performing NHE at shallow knee flexion angle may indicate that this protocol assists athletes to perform the eccentric exercise in a lengthened position which has positive effects on preventing HIS. In addition, NHE with an inclined platform might assist in providing a progressive program for preventing hamstring injury by modulating the angle of the platform.
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