Performance testing

The road to peak athletic performance begins with understanding your strengths and weaknesses. The specialists at Aurora BayCare Medical Center help you reach your next level.

Performance testing: Why choose Aurora BayCare Medical Center?

Our sports medicine specialists test your skills to help you overcome challenges and make the most of your strengths. Program highlights include:

• Demonstrated expertise: Our sports medicine specialists have additional training in athletic movement patterns. We focus on giving you a competitive edge.
• Leading-edge technology: We use tools such as Dartfish™ video system to analyze your movements and the SmartSpeed timing system for speed data. We use this information to recommend adjustments in your training regimen.
• Personalized plans: Our specialists help you set achievable goals and provide tailored training plans to help you reach optimal athletic performance.

Performance testing services for athletes

Our team assesses performance in athletes at all levels in all sports. We help you understand your current fitness and body mechanics. We offer:

Running analysis

We use Dartfish™ video system for running analysis (running form). Knowing how you move helps our specialists create plans to improve your speed and prevent injury. This system provides real-time feedback to help you adjust immediately.

We review the video with you and make recommendations for improvement. Our trainers use this information to develop personalized workouts and drills.

Bike fitting

Our specialists offer bike fitting services to cyclists at all levels to make sure your bike fits you properly. We check your biomechanics (how the body moves) and can recommend the right foot, handlebar and saddle alignment. Proper bike fitting helps you avoid injury and improve your cycling efficiency.

Baseline concussion testing

We use ImPACT™ testing system to help with concussion management in athletes at all levels and ages. This testing checks your performance on problem solving and memory tasks, before injury occurs to establish a baseline.

Understanding more about your normal thinking helps us see how you’ve changed after a head injury. Our specialists provide this testing for individual athletes and teams.

Performance pitching

Our specialists perform a thorough pitching analysis to make strength and conditioning recommendations to help improve performance and reduce injury risk. We use Dartfish™ video system to analyze your throwing mechanics. Learn more about our performance pitching program.

Upper extremity return to sport testing

This testing is to be used for return to sport following injury to the shoulder, elbow, or wrist and will help determine the patient’s abilities to return to higher level activity.

Lower extremity return to sport testing

This helps determine if an athlete is ready to return to high level functional activities following ankle, knee, or hip injury or surgery. This includes those that take place on uneven surfaces, at high velocity, include cutting or pivoting, or a prolonged period of time weight bearing.

Benefits of performance testing

Performance testing helps you understand your strengths and challenges. Our testing programs give you information to help you:

• Build strength and endurance
• Improve performance
• Prevent injury

Please call 920-288-5491 for more information or to schedule an appointment today.