Movement & Biomechanics

The athlete who can lock onto the target before his opponent or relevant stimuli in the environment is the one who has more time to perform - ultimately equating to better performance and more wins! Let me take you through how to improve your visual-perceptual performance with tailored training principles you can start building into your training today. The functional eye anatomy that allows us to perceive the world around us. Vision gives a sense of meaning to sounds, smells

Any shoulder stability workout and overall program should consider the anatomical makeup of the shoulder - as well as the person whom the shoulder belongs too! Cadaver inspection and histological analysis reveal high proportions of sensory nerve fibres in the labrum (Alashkham et al., 2018) and incomplete attachment of the labral surface to the glenoid from 11 to 2 o’clock (Alashkham et al., 2018). These have important implications. Loss of labral surface from a lesion during

The foot and ankle complex is the link in the chain that expresses the forces generated by the lower limb through the floor for locomotion during walking, running or sprinting. Already touted by previous professionals and coaches, the foot provides an opportunity for performance enhancement on the field if trained in a way that improves its absorption and expression qualities needed for running and change of direction movements. Below are my thoughts on training the foot-ankl

There are a few tests that propose to measure the original definition of proprioception like the upper or lower limb Y balance test and the use of laser pens to test error or joint position recreation. I stress here, as I did at the end of part 1 that we are measuring movement output and looking at its stability to maintain task performance under the environmental and organismal affordances. But as we now know, the proprioceptive-kinaesthetic coupling is embodied and embedded

Movement variability and the concept of motor abundance Often it is thought that there exists an “optimal” movement through the joint of interest. Whilst I do see more in the human movement space challenging the prevailing paradigm of optimal movement, there is still an obsession with the idea that there is one way to move or the correct posture to maintain when you are doing X or Y. Often these are fused with ideas of damage through exposure to certain movement patterns. Ult

One of the difficulties for proprioception is defining it, or rather the differing opinions on what it constitutes among researchers and clinicians. Whilst there is a plethora of definitions offered up, I liked the pragmatic definition offered by Susan Hillier in her 2015 paper. She suggests proprioception is “based on an ensemble of sensory inputs that serve sensing, producing, predicting, and simulating joint position, joint motion (velocity and direction), and force specif