Kinesiology is the study of you. It is the study of your mobility in everyday life whether it be as an athlete or a normal person engaging in day-to-day physical activity.
Kara Radzak, Ph.D., a UNLV professor who focuses on the biomechanical analysis of movement, explains kinesiology as a study of not only physical activity, but also how people “move [and] interact with [their] environment, and how they stay physically active throughout [their] entire life span.”
“I went into athletic training because I was the kid that thought broken bones were cool,” Radzak said. Once she learned more about the medical field, her fascination with muscles, bones and joints led her to choose Orthopedics.