hey all the PLC members Morey Croson here wanted to have a new video today about some assessments
that you can do for quarterbacks and so just be good overall information to utilize when
you have a new client or something like that even with the client that you have right now just to
give a little bit more information about what's going on in their body and how you can help that
or correlate that into maybe some of the those functions that they have when they're actually
going through the throw the first thing I always think is very very important is how well can they
balance okay so what I do is I just have one of them come up and basically what you do is you
have the front leg up to 90 degrees what this does is just makes it so you can great inconsistency
with any exercise so it's not like you know each time they have it at a different spot everybody's
going in from the same spot would you just bring it up in the front to 90 degrees okay from here
let them hold for 10 seconds with their eyes open it'll happen close your eyes and see how well they
can hold it with their eyes closed as well here really what you want to just see is make sure that
they can hold it for a period of time right so if they start to get off balance at the end just like
I did that's pretty normal really what you want to see is you know once they go eyes open eyes
closed and that egg will start changing around a little bit but they're able to control and
maintain that especially on their landing okay so if they can't maintain any type of stabilization
without having the visual feedback which is what the eyes-closed does as maybe so now you can't
have any you know any way of bringing the eyes and actually controlling the joint because that's what
helps a lot when you have your eyes open is okay I can stare at something I can hold that and know
exactly where I am and relative relative to that point and so I can pound and hold their night I
take the vision out at insa proprioception now your ankle has to be able to stabilize in space
and that's really what's important when your pleasure translate onto that front leg is you
need to be able to control that front leg and make sure your your ankle joints actually able
to absorb that force K if they can't stand there with their eyes open for 10 to 15 seconds then
you already know that that person is not going to be able to do with their eyes closed and you also
know that they're not going to be effective of transferring that weight onto their front leg the
next test is going to be for the overall shoulder stabilization case so what I'm going to do here is
we have them just go stand straight up first and we'll have this at 9 and now I'm going to just do
this on the right side you'd want to do it on both sides just like with the balance test so first I'm
gonna have them stand straight up and I want to see what their external rotation is like here and
really what their their hand should look like is it should be able to go past their spine right so
my spine straight up and you can see how the angle of my forearm is able to go past that point okay
and then we want to be able to go and bend over about a 45 degree angle so just like a nice little
animals getting into like a golf stance today and then still be able to get to that same range
case what you'll see is sometimes people have good range stance standing up and then when you're here
all of a sudden that range gets less and really there's three different ranges there's pass the
spine there's even with the spine and then there's a below this line okay what it's functional it is
passed this far okay give me an even to find with the spine that is really fine as long as they have
that here as well as here it's the same on both positions if you have underneath or not a function
position that's not good or if it changes right so fun good here then I then and then I go to having
equal now that you're telling me that this person has some type of shoulder stabilization problem
or rotator cuff stabilization problems they don't they're not gonna have the ability to really have
a lot of strength in the shoulders okay I would do that on both sides really they're throwing
arms gonna be where you really want to make sure that that's good but I would look at both sides
just make sure because that will impact some of the thoracic spine rotation and things like that
so make sure that that's good no matter what the next you actually have a Dow involved I don't know
if you want to use I really use a really range of different things here it just helps you and
making sure that you can see you know how much range are getting you actually not don't have
to use a dowel you could have it so they just use they just put their hand yes but I like using the
dial just because it makes it a little bit more objective or you can actually have a an area where
your you're actually looking to to try to get to okay and just makes it easier to kind of measure
and judge then so what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to start on my with my left leg I'm going
to take my right leg I'm just going to put my toe right in the middle part of my left leg and now
from here I'm going to rotate it as far as I can do my left side first and then I'm gonna rotate
as far as I can to you by rights I'm really what we're judging here when we're looking for and I
can move this right leg too as well just make sure that you guys know that um what I'm looking for
if I walk in that hip rotate okay so I'm looking right now at the left hip because my left my right
hip move freely and then I'm going to switch and I'm gonna do the same thing here rotate as far as
I can on the my right side and as far as I can back into my left side okay so we have to feel
like they're moving pretty freely here at least today but you'll see people that you when they
go and they rotate they'll really have a hard time going in one direction and what you're looking for
it is how how well can you know basically one part is the loading phase right so on my right side I'm
going here that's telling us how much so you can load the hip and then those are coming here I can
tell us how much they can you know kind of push off and create a good amount of force within the
hip going that way and it's the opposite here so when they're coming this way that's gonna tell us
how well they can load and then I'll end up coming through that's gonna tell us how much weight they
can kind of transfer for and how much range they have in that position so it's a really really good
tester she felt kind of how your overall hip is doing and where you have good range of motion
or maybe eliminate range of motion and how that could be impacting the actual throw alright so
I'm actually gonna do two different ones for this one just because I think that I'm not everybody's
gonna have a chair here but what you're gonna do is you're going to take the right leg and bring it
over the left leg I'm kind of in the front part of the chair just maybe so I don't have any weighted
sheet kind of lean it back so first I'm gonna take my right leg cross over I'll have the down onto
my back again and my right legs crossed over I'm gonna rotate as far as I can to my right this just
checks wrastling rotation if you can do this one this is really the best way to do it if you can't
okay I'm gonna go to my left leg and transfer that went over what this does this locks that
left hip in so I can't cheat there and then I'm gonna rotate as far as I can to my left side a
little bit more limited going to my left side okay so now this will tell me as I'm coming through the
throw that I might have a little bit of trouble coming through here maybe I'll start to kind of
my thing that I do when I when I'm throwing you that kind of lean forward here right and so right
I go into thoracic flexion rather than fully utilize thoracic rotation and maybe because of
this limitation in my left side throughout the rotation that could be impacting you so what by
helping me get a little bit more thoracic rotation with that left hip being stable will actually help
me out great okay so these types of things are what we're trying to do within the performance
that we're looking for the physical as well as the you know quarterback related stuff so we
want to see if there's over if there's just maybe some restriction in the body that are
making it so you're not getting Susie to the throwing and even though we can't see you then
you want to be kidding okay now the next thing that we could do the same type of exercise just
if you don't have the dowel in the chair is you just go and you just don't grab the hands here
okay and make sure that their feet stay down the entire time so you'll want to make it so they're
you know they're rotating or they're he knows we're coming out ten and grabbing on to their
own chest they're just gonna go and rotate as far as they can to right and then as far as they can
to the left you can kind of like the hip to move freely oligo nough be mostly a thoracic rotation
test standing up what you're really looking for doing them in turn to the side here is for them
to maybe hyper extend right so I'm rotating I'm extending in my back so I'm here and then trying
to rotate that's obviously just functional that'll probably pretty low overhead problems or the other
thing would be kind of more of a you know bending forward as they're rotated I know it doesn't seem
like something that would be a common problem but a lot of people actually do do that although kind
of rotate coming forward over they'll rotate kind of extend okay and then you just know
that functionally they just have some problems in rotation within the spine that's obviously very
very important is it for for any type of quarter so that's going to be something that you need to
be able to see in and correct alright so for this one we're gonna do is you go up against a wall if
you don't have a you know I try to get in anywhere you can go I have a little golf club here that I'm
just putting behind the back the goalies you want to be able to press your torso up against the wall
I'm just slightly bent here and the legs kind of doing like a wall squat here and now I'm gonna
try to do this and just press my lap range of motion this will help me be able to see how well
I can go over a head without getting into that hyperextension of that back right so we always
are seeing this especially in the last we want to actually figure out maybe why that's happening as
well as about just an overall position that is just accomplishable by the equity okay so I'm
going to have squat position pressing up and if that if this golf club whatever you want to use
stick whatever the case may be and that moves it all then you know that they've already started to
go into hyperextension we need to work on some core type of stuff but from here keeping their
elbow straight and slowly coming all the way up overhead touching just their thumbs to the wall
okay so my hands are all the way straight touching my thumbs up above my head okay so those are the
five different tests that we can do or assessments that you can do to really help you out while
you're working with quarterbacks at sea okay first how long can they transfer that weight onto one
leg with a balance test but also check to see what their hip range of motion what is like just make
sure they can actually utilize their hips and if they have any you know restrictions within
creating rotation either side and then we're obviously gonna go after the shoulder and we go
up to the shoulder in a few different ways we're going to see how well can they come up overhead
without hyperextending keeping that core on we also want to see how well they can externally
really externally rotate and do they have a good stable scapula so if they externally rotate well
and just an upright position but then not when they're bent over a little bit then we know that
there's some scapular instability probably going into some thoracic rotation deficits and then we
also actually actually test the thoracic rotation we need to do that sitting or standing big thing
is we want to see how often their spine just functionally move that's also a big part of being
able to generate for strength rolling I really actually have good mechanics trying to throw
so if you have any questions about any of these assessments or any of these tests let me know we'd
love to be able to help you out I try to be able to connect okay this is a you know what you want
to try to improve if you find the test is a little bit limiting if you want to have some exercises
or anything like that let me know I'd be happy to help you could also check out our stranding
auditioning video within the membership page and I probably also give you some good helpful ideas
okay thanks again for being a PLC member looking forward to continuing to post videos for you