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🧠Hop Tests: Understanding, Selecting and Using Them Effectively in Sports Physiotherapy
Why Hop Tests Have Become Essential After Lower Limb Injury Hop tests now occupy a central place in the functional assessment of the lower limb, particularly after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and during return-to-sport (RTS) preparation. Simple to implement, low-cost, reproducible, and closely aligned with real sport-specific demands, they allow clinicians to objectively assess…
🧠Chair stand tests – Simple tools… but not interchangeable
Sit-to-stand tests are among the most widely used functional assessment tools in physiotherapy. Easy to implement—requiring only a chair, a stopwatch, and standardized instructions—they may seem interchangeable at first glance. In reality, they encompass a very heterogeneous family of tests, each with distinct clinical objectives, physiological determinants, and fields of application. Since the initial work…
🧠Measuring strength using a hand dynamometer: what you need to understand in clinical practice
The assessment of muscle strength is a cornerstone of clinical examination in physiotherapy. Long performed manually and subjectively, it quickly revealed its limitations in terms of precision and reproducibility. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, some authors already emphasized the need for more reliable tools to quantify muscle strength.Historical work, notably by…