Isokinetic Testing

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          Vern Gambetta on December 1, 2006 at 11:52 pm #12489

          It is absolutely amazing to me that people still make extensive of isokinetic testing both for injury screening, rehabilitation, and research. This was considered cutting edge in the 1970’s when we did not know any better. At best isokinetic testing serves as a random number generator. It tells us what an individual muscle or group of muscles is capable of in a very controlled (but very unna

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          flow on December 3, 2006 at 11:59 pm #68016

          what is he referring to here:  …"what was that telling us? Well it was telling what we now know from biomechanical analysis about hamstring function and what the work of Lieber has told about muscle architecture. How about in rehab as an indicator that strength is sufficient to return to play?"…

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on December 4, 2006 at 4:13 am #60458

          I just think he was saying that it essentially told us nothing useful.

          Interestingly, isokinetic testing is still seen in many circles as the gold standard for measuring strength indices.

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