The Tuck Jump Assessment (TJA) is a test used to assess technique flaws during a 10-second, high intensity, jumping bout. Subjective Evaluation Tests, as such, found in the literature should be used in conjunction with additional clinical tests and evaluations to identify other sport-specific injury risk factors. In conclusion, further research is essential to focus on the validity of subjective evaluations, aimed at validating the quality of movement.
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There is also conflicting and inconsistent evidence regarding the analysis of the quality of post-injury movement to determine altered patterns and postural-dysfunctional pictures linked to specific gestures. This allows us to affirm, also given the subjective analysis of the evaluations, their unreliability and validity in the diagnostic and therapeutic use of complex sports gestures and in rehabilitation practice. We found a limited literature referring to functional tests investigating the quality of movement. Our research was limited to reviewing the studies published in the last 10 years in English on the PubMed database.
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The purpose of this article is to investigate the reliability and validity of functional tests such as FMS, AAA, LESS, TJA. This is identified as an important risk factor for second injuries which is consistent with the results of many studies in the recent literature. A previous injury is often associated with a decrease in gestural quality. An ever increasing number of athletes incur injuries during sporting activity. The performed tests, which mostly showed a poor performance by the sample, can be indicative of injury probability.īackground. Deficits in jumping/landing technique are also very frequent in all the items analyzed (jumping, landing and plyometrics). (4) Conclusions: The most frequent neuromuscular deficits in federated youth basketball players are related to instability, the most frequent being ankle instability, followed by lumbo-pelvic instability, dynamic postural instability and dynamic knee valgus. The thighs of 92% do not reach parallel (peak of jump). During landing, 96% present dynamic lower extremity valgus. A total of 95% of participants are unable to keep their ankle stable in monopodial loading 86% present dynamic lower extremity valgus with statistically significant differences between categories (p = 0.004) 94% are unable to keep the pelvis stable when performing a single-leg squat 93% are unable to keep their trunk stable when performing the same movement. (3) Results: 575 players were included in this study. The evaluations consisted of static physical measurements and dynamic measurements. Specific tests and trials were conducted to evaluate members of teams from several clubs in male and female from under 12 (U12) to under 17 (U17) categories. (2) Methods: Cross-sectional study with 778 basketball players. (1) Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate and to detect neuromuscular deficiencies in static and dynamic tests among federated youth basketball players. Adult female players demonstrated greater knee valgus during DVJ compared to youth female players. Youth players demonstrated reduced neuromuscular control during TJA and inferior hop performance compared to adult players. Youths demonstrated inferior hop performance (males single-leg hop 142 ± 18 vs. TJA revealed more technique errors in youths compared to adults (males 10 (8–11) vs. Hop performance assessed with single-leg hop for distance and side hop.Īdult females had smaller normalized knee separation distances (NKSD) during DVJ at initial contact (77.9 ± 18.5 vs. Neuromuscular control assessed with drop vertical jump (DVJ) and tuck jump assessment (TJA). To compare neuromuscular control and hop performance between youth and adult male and female football players.ġ19 youth players (13–16 years 68 males) and 88 adult players (17–26 years 44 males).