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The purpose of this study was to describe stance foot and ankle kinematics and
the associated ground reaction forces at the upper end of human performance in
professional football players during commonly performed football-specific tasks.
Nine participants were recruited from the spring training squad of a professional
football team. In a motion analysis laboratory setting, participants performed
three activities used at the NFL Scouting Combine to assess player speed and
agility: the 3-cone drill, the shuttle run, and the standing high jump. The
talocrural and first metatarsophalangial joint dorsiflexion, subtalar joint
inversion, and the ground reaction forces were determined for the load bearing
portions of each activity. We documented load-bearing foot and ankle kinematics
of elite football players performing competition-simulating activities, and
confirmed our hypothesis that the talocrural, subtalar, and metatarsophalangeal
joint ranges of motion for the activities studied approached or exceeded reported
physiological limits.
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