Keeping Your Athletes Healthy: Identifying and Screening Lower Quadrant Muscle Imbalances

Explains why addressing imbalances involving tight and weak muscles will enable an athlete to train harder with less chance of injury. Shows how to dynamically assess balance and screen for potential knee injuries, how to assess the lower abdominals and how tight hip flexors will cause weakness of this region, how to assess the spine for rotational strength and how weakness will affect the shoulder of the overhead athlete. Also how to assess hip rotational strength and flexibility and how this contributes to lateral speed. Produced in cooperation with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

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