STABILITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS The elusive variable of success—how to reduce athlete injury risk Selena Eskinazi-Budge, DPT,CSCS President Pure Talent Basketball IQ Chemistry Successful Season Fitness Level Coaching • Strength & Conditioning Psychology/ Attitude What if you had an advantage over your competitors in every variable? Season Projection? GET SIZED FOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS! Injury is the most influential factor that is rarely adequately addressed Major Misconceptions 1.  Injury is primarily a factor of luck (or lack there of) 2.  A good strength & conditioning program will help prevent injuries FALSE! Especially in women’s basketball 80% of ACL injuries in basketball are noncontact and therefore have the potential to be prevented. Injury risk can be predicted Predisposition to injury can be reduced Unlikely… 25% of NBA starting guards tore their ACL last season High Risk! RG III ACL Injury! Injury-risk profile Identify predisposing risk factors Targeted interventions •  Individualized injury risk evaluation and assessment •  Evidence-based methods •  Neuromuscular deficiencies •  Dysfunctional movement patterns •  Asymmetries •  Personalized injury prevention programs •  Resolve risk factors by creating inherent changes •  Systematically create stability (different than strength) Athletes who perform the appropriate neuromuscular training injury prevention program have 73.4% less risk of suffering a non-contact injury compared to those who did not participate in a program (Sugimoto 2012) Season Prior to Implementation of Injury Prevention Program 17% Season-ending knee injuries 83% Non-Injured/Nonseason-ending knee injury 1 in 5 athletes suffered a season-ending NON-CONTACT injury Seasons Subsequent to Implementation of Injury Prevention Program 100% Season-ending knee injuries Non-Injured/Nonseason-ending knee injury Over 250 athletes evaluated and given an SES injury prevention program, season-ending knee injuries over 3 basketball seasons BUT • Sets, reps, weights and order are inappropriate for basketball; athlete is unprepared for sport demands • Weight room strength fails to translate to on-court performance, results in high-risk injury scenarios • Unusable strength and power, results in high-risk injury scenarios     Individually assess athletes Create personalized injury prevention program   Ideally, perform prior to lifting (~15 min)   SES program follows demands of the respective season.       Initial risk assessment & profile SES program created (periodically updated) Log in to athlete profile page (www.stabilityES.com)     View videos Perform SES prior to lifting Dr. Selena Eskinazi-Budge is the President of . She received her doctorate degree in physical therapy from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Dr. Budge became interested in injury prevention after experiencing an ACL tear as a collegiate athlete. She has evaluated thousands of athletes at the high school, collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels. Her research interests include clinical and biomechanical risk factors for injury, prediction and prevention of ACL injury, and movement analysis methods. Dr. Budge is currently a reviewer for the sports section of the American Physical Therapy Association and the top ranked sports science academic journal Sports Medicine. She has received national grant funding for her work in ACL-injury related research. Dr. Budge can be contact at [email protected]