Smart Textiles for Personalized Sports and Healthcare

• This review provides comprehensive structural design strategies for the manufacturing of smart textiles, covering fibers, yarns, and fabrics and offers professional guidance for product development in this field. • The fundamental performance criteria for sports-oriented smart textiles have been provided, highlighting the key attributes required for their optimal functionality in athletic applications. • This review systematically introduces the diverse roles of smart textiles in specific sports scenarios and the stringent requirements they must meet to perform effectively in these environments. • Smart textiles maintain comfort and accuracy in sports, serving as inexpensive and efficient information-gathering terminals, and developing multifunctional, cost-effective textile-based systems is a pressing need for the future of intelligent sports.