Athletic Kinetics

Get Your Foundation Ready

Athletic Kinetics is about creating stable movement so your body can function optimally to enhance sport performance. We offer a comprehensive total body assessment of your biomechanical and functional move to support athletics and long term mobility.

Exploring the mechanics of your athletic mobility.

 It is important to assess these following areas that are needed for optimal performance:

  • Postural control:  Balance is a hallmark of postural control.  A dancer needs optimal balance to perform high level dance routines.  Postural control relies on information for the vestibular and somatosensory systems along with visual cues.  This is an involuntary neurological loop consisting of motor, sensory, and integrative processes used to maintain the body's position relative to gravity and of its segments relative to each other for stability.  A dancer could not dance without optimal postural control.

  • Motor control:  Motor Control is defined as the process of initiating, directing, and grading purposeful voluntary movement.  Any movement or action a performance or active athlete demonstrates requires optimal motor control and coordination of their muscles, joints and nervous system together.  A basketball player could not shoot a basket or run and dribble a ball without optimal motor control.

  • Impact control: Impact Control is the ability to absorb load while maintaining stability without excessive strain on biomechanics and joints through proper eccentric muscle activation.  This involves observing the performance or proactive athlete performing an action (shooting, jumping, kicking, etc.) and noting how the body moves through the action.  Can other areas of the body stay steady as other areas are in motion

  • Explosive Control:  Explosive Control is the ability to generate force against gravity while maintaining proper form.  When the volleyball player jumps and swings their arm to hit the ball, what happens to their form?  When the dancer kicks, what happens to the rest of their body?  

 

We will look at all of this and more to make sure your sports biomechanics are in top form. We love Supporting the Proactive and Performance Athlete so you can “Perform at your Highest Potential”.