We chat about your experience level, current training, position/team role, sport demands, recovery strategies, and injury history. I want to know how you are tracking your training volumes/intensities (drastic changes can increase injury risk), if you are giving your body the resources like sleep, nutrition, and strength that it needs to heal and repair, if there's a pattern to your previous injuries, and if your previous injuries have been formally rehabbed.

If the the body can't move enough at one joint, it's going to complete the movement goal by moving more at a different one (likely increasing injury risk). We assess how the joints most relevant to your sport & position (for example, goalie vs field player) move and if they can achieve the positions needed for the movements of your sport. For a soccer field player, this means we are primarily looking at mobility at the big toes, ankles, hips, and trunk rotation. For goalies, we also look at the shoulders!

We test whether your muscles have the capacity to accelerate, decelerate, and control your body during the actions of your sport. For a field sport athlete, these actions are sprinting, cutting, pivoting, and kicking a ball. We use a force transducer to measure how much force your hamstrings, quadriceps, and other relevant muscles produce and compare these measurements for side-to-side symmetry, quadriceps-to-hamstring ratios, and in relation to your body weight.

We summarize our findings and help you to understand them and their significance. Then, we work together to Game Plan a few strategic ways you can start improving your identified risk factors.