24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Movement Quality: From Biomechanical Control to Physiological Adaptation

The 24-hour movement behavior framework recognizes physical activity, exercise, sedentary behavior, sleep, and recovery as interdependent components of daily life. Changes in one behavior may affect the time, quality, and physiological consequences of others, with implications for motor control, musculoskeletal function, fatigue, recovery, metabolic regulation, inflammation, and long-term health. Advances in wearable sensors, accelerometry, gait analysis, electromyography, motion capture, and physiological monitoring have created new opportunities to assess movement behavior and movement quality in laboratory, clinical, athletic, occupational, and free-living settings. However, evidence remains fragmented across biomechanics, exercise physiology, sleep science, rehabilitation, and population health. Greater integration is needed to clarify how daily movement patterns influence functional capacity, performance, rehabilitation outcomes, active living, healthy aging, and physiological adaptation.This Research Topic aims to advance interdisciplinary understanding of the relationships between 24-hour movement behaviors, movement quality, biomechanics, and physiological function. It will examine how physical activity, exercise, sedentary time, sleep, and recovery interact with neuromuscular control, muscle function, fatigue, movement variability, physiological regulation, and long-term functional health. We welcome experimental, clinical, field-based, wearable-sensor, intervention, computational, and validated population-based research that identifies underlying mechanisms, improves assessment methods, and informs practical strategies for enhancing movement function and physiological health. Studies should, where appropriate, address functional relevance, mechanistic insight, independent replication, external validation, prospective confirmation, or triangulation with biomechanical and physiological measurements.To gather further insights into 24-hour movement behaviors and their biomechanical, physiological, behavioral, and translational consequences, this Research Topic will cover laboratory, clinical, athletic, pediatric, aging, occupational, and population-based research, while excluding purely descriptive single-dataset studies without validation, functional relevance, or mechanistic insight. We welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:- Biomechanics of gait, posture, balance, coordination, motor control, and movement variability- Relationships between physical activity, exercise, sedentary behavior, sleep, recovery, and movement quality- Neuromuscular function, muscle strength, muscle quality, fatigue, recovery, and exercise adaptation- Wearable sensors, accelerometry, motion capture, electromyography, and digital biomarkers of movement behavior and movement quality- Physiological pathways involving metabolism, inflammation, autonomic regulation, circadian rhythms, sleep physiology, and biological aging- Physiological adaptation to exercise, lifestyle, rehabilitation, and active living interventions- Computational modeling, machine learning, and prediction of movement performance, functional decline, injury risk, or health outcomes- Clinical, athletic, pediatric, aging, occupational, and population-based studies linking movement behavior with functional or physiological outcomes- Measurement validity, reliability, reproducibility, and standardization of movement and physiological assessments- Translational approaches connecting movement behavior research with rehabilitation, performance, healthy aging, and public healthAppendix: Article typesOriginal Research, Brief Research Reports, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Meta-analyses, Methods, Perspectives, and Clinical, Translational, or Population-Based Studies. Topic editors: Qiang Cao, Andreas Stafylidis, Liangjing Xia Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/83751/24-hour-movement-behaviors-and-movement-quality-from-biomechanical-control-to-physiological-adaptation