The throwing assessment is meant for athletes who have already made it through their interval throwing program to 120 feet or off of the mound. This appointment should not be your first time throwing as we need to assess your mechanics at high effort. If you are about to begin your program, please sign up for an injury risk assessment (link and description below) and we can help guide your journey to getting back on the field.
During the assessment, athletic trainers or our biomechanist will gather strength, active range of motion, and passive range of motion symmetry metrics for several joints in the upper and lower body that contribute to proper throwing form. After strength and range of motion testing, we will have you warm up. You will have access to resistance bands, foam rollers, weights, and medicine balls. If you require specialized equipment for your warmup, please bring that along. We want you to be comfortable when you throw. Once warmed up, you will throw (mound or flat ground as appropriate) in our sports assessment lab.
There, motion capture cameras and software will create a 3D model of your throwing form and a report with metrics relevant to injury risk and efficiency. The testing takes about 60 minutes to complete. We will have your results immediately and will review them with your remaining session time. Here is an example of the report. We can help with ideas to address your unique needs as you continue to ramp up back into your sport. We will email you and your physician a copy of your reports as well as bullet points summarizing our findings.