Meet Mr Karthikeyan Muthumayandi, programme director for Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation. Mr Muthumayandi received a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy from the Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R medical University, India in 1998. After teaching biomechanics, sports therapy and rehabilitation in the Nanda Institute of Physiotherapy, he completed M.P.Th. in Physiotherapy from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India in 2002. He worked as senior physiotherapist in charge of Sports and Neuro-Musculoskeletal rehabilitation for two years in Apollo Hospital (world’s third largest group of corporate hospitals) New Delhi. He completed an M.Phil from Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2010. He was working as research physiotherapist from 2004 before he joined the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kent in May 2014.
Mr Muthumayandi’s teaching focuses on clinical practice. His research interests include exploring the use of “latest generation physical activity monitors” in the objective quantification of physical ambulatory behaviour in individuals at macro (i.e. community) and micro (i.e. spatial and temporal gait parameters) levels through machine learning. One of the objectives is to evaluate these technologies as tools to increase the physical activity in people.
His other research interests are looking at the impact of obesity in patients with severe osteoarthritis, exploring patients reported outcome in patients waiting for joint replacements, prediction of outcome through machine learning after surgery and also looking at gait pathologies in people with orthopaedic disorders.
In the future, he intends to explore the possibility of translating the objective quantification of physical ambulatory activity to clinical relevance. To explore new technologies and machine learning programming in sports evaluation