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Proprioception training to reduce lower body injury

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The most common area’s of injury occurrence in team-sport athletes are the ankle, knee and low back. These injuries can be quite debilitating, often requiring time away from training, practicing and competing. Coaches must be proactive in limiting injury risk in their athletes by devising evidence based programs that improve strength, stability and mobility of …

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In-Season Injury Prevention Training

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There are two primary objectives of strength and conditioning programs for team sports. Improve performance Reduce injury potential   The latter objective often gets overlooked and underestimated by players, coaches and parents for the former. Furthermore, the composition of many training programs often neglect the physical qualities more associated with injury reduction in favor of …

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