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Guest LecturePre-Season Screening of Professional Footballers – The Role Of Movement AssessmentWayne DieselTraditionally pre-season physiotherapy screening exams of footballers have in the main revolved around joint specific clinical tests. However, more recently medical staff at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has started looking at screening tools that are functional; require little or no equipment; don’t take long to complete and hopefully prevent either the onset or recurrence of intrinsic injuries. The National Academy of Sports Medicine’s [NASM] approach to functional screening met all of these objectives. The functional movements used include an Overhead Squat [OHS] and Single–Legged Squat [SLS]; requires only a postural grid; digital camera and can be completed inside of 15 minutes. Overactive muscle groups that require inhibition and lengthening as well as underactive muscle groups that need isolated strengthening can then easily be identified and incorporated into the player’s individual Injury Prevention [IP] programmes. Historically all players, irrespective of differing movement dysfunction patterns, participated in identical IP programmes. Finally, in the event of injury thought to result from dysfunction in their movement patterns, the restoration of correct movement patterns will follow a specific sequence of events. The NASM have developed a Corrective Exercise Strategy that will be discussed during the presentation. |
