Pitch Ready Testing
Pitch Ready Lower Limb Testing
“Make the Complicated Simple”
Lower limb injuries in sprinting and change of direction sports (specifically ACL and knee injuries, as well as hamstring, calf and hip / groin injuries) cost an individual athlete and sporting teams dearly in terms of games missed, with well known long term health implications following such injury. Re-injury risk also plagues return to sport – with 8-30% typically quoted in the literature. Like most things in life, prevention is better than cure, but time is precious and needs to be utilised in the most efficient manner possible. Developed by Tim McGrath (PhD) as part of his post-doctoral research and is the culmination of over 15-years experience in professional sport, PITCH READY is a precise testing system available in Australia, the UK and the USA which utilises a cloud-based software platform to identify and provide clinically meaningful strategies to reduce known injury risk factors, as well as promotion of ‘gold-standard’ injury-prevention programming for lower limb injury at the ankle, knee, hip and groin. In this manner the best ‘bang for buck’ strategies are often utilised, creating time efficiency and increasing compliance. Pitch Ready takes careful utilisation of the latest scientific literature, as well as cutting edge practice for lower limb rehabilitation. The objective of this testing is to provide athletes with definitive individualised and progressive information they can use in the real-world to help maximise potential for injury prevention and successful return to elite sport.
Pitch Ready Provides:
- Research-derived and validated injury prevention
- Cutting edge risk analysis
- Maximise rehabilitation efficiency
- Feedback on appropriate safe return to sport
For more information visit the dedicated website: PITCH READY
Services Available:
With PITCH READY we are able to offer precise testing for athletes both pre-injury for risk stratification and also post-injury to maximise recovery potential. This process forms one of the most rigorous return-to-sport testing systems available anywhere. Services include:
- Whole squad pre-season screening and individualised injury prevention programming
- Staged recovery for an athlete recovering from an ACL injury
- Gold standard Return to Sport (RTS) testing after lower limb injury
- Optimisation of the rehab process
Peer Reviewed Publications:
McGrath, T.M, Hulin, B.T, Pickworth, N., Clarke, A., Timmins, R. Determinants of hamstring fascicle length in professional rugby league athletes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2019)
McGrath, T.M., G. Waddington, J.M. Scarvell, N. Ball, R. Creer, K. Woods, D. Smith, and R. Adams, An Ecological Study of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Part 1: Clinical Tests Do Not Correlate With Return-to-Sport Outcomes. Orthopaedic Journal Of Sports Medicine, 2016. 4(11) .
McGrath, T.M., G. Waddington, J.M. Scarvell, N. Ball, R. Creer, K. Woods, D. Smith, and R. Adams, An Ecological Study of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Part 2: Functional Performance Tests Correlate With Return-to-Sport Outcomes.
McGrath, T.M., G. Waddington, J.M. Scarvell, N.B. Ball, R. Creer, K. Woods, and D. Smith, The effect of limb dominance on lower limb functional performance – a systematic review. Journal of Sports Sciences, 2016. 34(4): p. 289-302.
