Post joint assessment we move to the strength assessment. This will be very different to what most lifters would consider to be strength. The assessment aims to isolate the muscles and joint actions and try to find the “weak links” in the kinetic chain that could be contributing to pain and/or injury.
The aim of this part of the assessment is to;
1 - Isolate the individual muscles with specific muscle actions
2 - Stress the muscles in a maximal isometric fashion to get accurate data on force production
3 - Stress those muscles in an isometric fashion (not moving) to assess both strength, endurance and quality of neuromuscular control
4 - Perform repetition maximum tests in these isolated positions to combine both endurance and through range strength
5 - Through all of these tests we are assessing movement quality and co-ordination of the movements. Essentially are the muscles firing when they should be
This data is combined with the joint assessment to then inform the final piece. Technical.
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