I’ve been running a 15-minute risk screen for our varsity squads the first week of August, and soft-tissue tweaks have plummeted. We use Y-Balance, a 5-rep Nordic check, and single-leg hop distance; anyone with >10% limb asymmetry gets targeted eccentrics and hop progressions, and we’ve had zero ham pulls the last two falls. What quick, scalable screens or tweaks are you using to keep athletes on the field?
We also run a 15‑min screen and adding a 90° adductor squeeze with a BP cuff (flag <40 mmHg or >“10% asymmetry”) caught groin risks the Y‑Balance/hop missed. On the 5‑rep Nordic we enforce 3‑sec lowers — , they’ll game it if tempo isn’t strict. If you’ve got 60 extra seconds, try a hop‑and‑stick (distance plus a clean 2‑sec stick) to pick up control deficits.
Piggybacking on @tjameson90’s asymmetry point, we squeeze a 60‑second knee‑to‑wall ankle DF into that 15‑min block — flag >2 cm side‑to‑side or <8–10 cm total and we dose soleus eccentrics plus pogo progressions; our hop asymmetries cleaned up and hamstring ‘tweaks’ fell off. Do it after a short warm‑up or you’ll over‑flag stiff ankles — drives me nuts when that skews the list.