All Gas, No Brakes?: Testing and Training Deceleration in Sport
Description
Description: The ability to decelerate is a vital component of sport performance and deceleration is often involved in lower extremity injury mechanisms. Despite this, deceleration assessment and training is often neglected in end-stage rehabilitation and training programs. This session will highlight the importance of deceleration in sport, discuss joint and muscular loading during deceleration, and examine the implications of impaired deceleration performance on injury. Assessment methods and athlete monitoring data will be discussed to better quantify deceleration performance. Practical strategies and exercise progressions will be provided to assist in improving deceleration performance from the clinic to the field or court.
Objectives:
1. Discuss the importance of deceleration ability for sport performance.
2. Propose testing strategies and athlete monitoring data interpretation to assist the clinician in
assessing deceleration performance.
3. Identify exercise progressions, deceleration drills, and training techniques to maximize deceleration performance.
About The Speaker(s)
Steven Higbie is a sports physical therapist at the Memorial Hermann Rockets Sports Medicine Institute in Houston, TX. He received his DPT from Duke University in 2016 and completed the RSMI sports residency in 2017. He is an adjunct faculty member at Houston Christian University and provides athletic coverage for HCU and George Ranch High School. He is a residency faculty member, participates in ACL-related research, and holds certifications in strength/conditioning and dry needling.
