What Are ForceDecks?
ForceDecks are used to assess and collect data from 20+ different movements, e.g. a squat. It can collect data on strength, jump height, balance, squat depth, landing impact and more.
How Does It Work?
We begin by measuring your weight, then carry out the functional movement being tested, e.g. single leg squat. When performing this movement on the ForceDecks, it records the amount of force applied through the plate during different phases of the movement.
Why Do We Use Them?
The data collected can provide us with objective measures, mostly taken at the beginning of a rehabilitation or fitness plan journey.
Our physiotherapists, sports rehabilitators or Pilates instructors can analyse the data and identify any strength imbalances between each leg or the amount of force produced when landing.
This data can help us create exercise programmes catered towards an individual's needs e.g. strength imbalances, which can lead to better outcomes.
Along the journey, we can also re-test the exercises to track any progress made by an individual and provide a clear picture of how an individual is progressing in their rehabilitation or fitness plan.
What Are The Benefits?
· Provides us with objective data which can be analysed and referenced to during rehabilitation
· We can compare an individual's data to normalised data collected from different ages, genders and sports
· It can be used to screen an individual's risk of injury or re-injury
· Help correct an individual's form of certain exercises, e.g. the ForceDecks can detect if someone is shifting their body weight towards one side more than the other. With this data we can find solutions to correct form
People Most Likely To Benefit:
· People with biomechanical issues
· People with an injury who have lost strength or function in a particular body part
· Athletes wanting to screen their movements to help prevent injuries
· Elite athletes looking to make marginal gains
· Pre- & post-operation screening
· Gym goers or athletes looking at ways they can improve their form on particular exercises
Common Exercises We Test?
· Squat
· Single leg squat
· Single leg jump
· Countermovement jump
· Drop jump
· Single leg jump
· Land and hold
· Push-up
· Shoulder isometrics
