Dynamic Movement - Balance - Kinematics - Neuromechanics
All Activities are built across our 4 Pillars: Dynamic Movement, Balance, Kinematics, and Neuromechanics. They all take a holistic and non-isolated approach to health and fitness by integrating the brain and the body with randomized movement in free space in sport/life-relevant movement patterns.
Dynamic Movement
- One unique and critical piece of TRAZER's Dynamic Movement activities is tracking the User's Reaction Time to randomly placed targets to identify asymmetries in movement patterns. TRAZER looks at a person's ability to move in certain vectors and tests their ability to stop, start, and change direction, as they would navigate in sport or life, to quantify imbalances in performance metrics.
- Our Dynamic Movement activities include Reactive Agility Screens, Lateral Agility Screens, and Graded Performance Assessments. First step quickness and ability to stop on a dime are challenged and measured.
- TRAZER’s Balance tests were established to provide an objective and reproducible method of assessing static postural stability. The TRAZER tests are provided in 3 different levels of difficulty: Balance 1, Balance 2 and the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) Test -Balance 3.
- TRAZER's Balance Tests can be used to assess the effects of mild head injury (mTBI) on static postural stability. Information obtained from this clinical balance tool can be used to assist clinicians in making return to play decisions following mild head injury, orthopedic injury, or for fall prevention.
Kinematics
- Kinematics in TRAZER definition is centered around important formulae that measure the velocity and acceleration of points in a moving body, including joint angles, rotations and more. Our Kinematics activities are based on tracking and measuring positional metrics for single and double-leg squats and for the LESS Test. For the double-leg squat, single leg squat, and LESS (Landing Error Scoring System), TRAZER reports, without markers or attachments;
- Stance Width
- Trunk Flexion
- Pelvic Tilt
- Right and Left Knee Valgus Varus
- Right and Left Knee Flexion
- Right and Left Knee Dorsiflexion
Neuromechanics
- What is neuromechanics? The term may seem complex, but when you break it down, it's simple. Neuro is the brain processing; mechanics is the body moving or functioning. The textbook definition “is an area that attempts to combine the efforts of muscles, sensory organs, pattern generators in the brain, and the central nervous system itself to explain motion.“
- Healthcare has traditionally tried to break the body down into its individual parts and their isolated capacities: how strong is a knee or shoulder when extending with weight in a single direction? But the body doesn't work that way. The body is a complex interaction of systems that work together in a holistic fashion to allow the individual to function at their optimal level.
- Our standardized neuromechanics assessments, Flanker and Stroop, test the ability to sense - process - execute.