Mike,
How do you test your injured athletes? Do you try to tailor the test to particular cases, or do you not bother and wait until full recovery to get a more representative baseline? For example, would you test the vertical jump for someone with a shoulder injury?
It really depends on the injury and whether a substitute test can be used to give me a decent assessment of what I want to look at. I don’t test just for the sake of testing. In most cases athletes can do at least a couple of the tests. To specifically address your example, I probably wouldn’t have someone test VJ if they had a shoulder injury. Even with a touch mat (rather than a Vertec) I’ve seen athletes hurt their shoulders doing VJ tests due to the vigorous arm swing.
ELITETRACK Founder