• Will Leitch tells us that “figuring out which pitchers are least likely to get hurt and helping pitchers keep from getting hurt is the game’s next market inefficiency to be exploited,” but Leitch says little about the people who identify biomechanical risk factors in pitchers and keep them healthy… The Glass Arm (New York Magazine) • An in-depth look at how pitching velocity is changing baseball. Includes a very cool graphic that breaks down the complex kinematic sequence of pitching… Baseball 2013: Here Come the Flamethrowers (Wall Street Journal) • High school pitchers in Japan have been throwing hundreds …

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• Good description of Catapult Sports’ GPS tracking and heartrate monitoring system which is gaining adoption in professional and collegiate basketball, football and soccer… Sensors Log an Athlete’s Every Move—And Heartbeat (Popular Mechanics) • Gatorade maintains an active Sports Science forum. This article makes the point, very thoroughly, that athletes who consume too much protein during recovery run the risk of compromising their bodies’ ability to intake and absorb other critical nutrients like carbohydrates… SSE #107 Protein Consumption and Resistance Exercise: Maximizing Anabolic Potential (Gatorade Sports Science Institute) • Carnegie Mellon psychology researchers are examining the role background processing, our …

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• Ichiro Suzuki’s approach to training and the machines that he uses to increase flexibility and shoulder, hip, and pelvic function are eye-opening. The Secret Gym of Ichiro Suzuki (Wall Street Journal) • Axon Sports asks what the recently announced Brain Activity Map, the BAM project mentioned by President Obama in his State of the Union address, will mean for basketball players. Basketball and The BAM Project (Axon Sports) • The Charles Poliquin blog summarizes a review paper in International Society of Sports Nutrition on post-exercise nutrition. The takeaway: Eat before and after, and make smart choices. Tip561: The Post-Workout …

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• Are football clubs missing out on the potential to train the most important organ of all — the brain? Mind over matter: Soccer’s bid to train the brain (CNN) • Talent evaluators take note. Variables that are difficult to quantify and see — work habits, competitiveness, ambition, determination — often times end up being more important than physical talent in the long run. Stop Judging Talent; Start Nurturing Character (Daniel Coyle) • New measures are being taken by NBA teams to improve performance and player health. More advancements forthcoming. Next big thing in NBA analytics might be moving from …

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• Good luck competing with this guy for a header. How Cristiano Ronaldo scored his incredible headed goal against Manchester United in last week’s champions league showdown at the Bernabeu. How did Cristiano Ronaldo score his incredible header (Telegraph UK) • iPads will neither cause nor cure concussions but the NFL wants to put software on the tablet computers to immediately diagnose cognition after players take big hits. The league regulates what coaches and teams can do with tablets and this opens the door for more injury-prevention and health-related sideline apps. NFL turing to Apple’s iPad to diagnose concussions during …

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Hamstring injuries that occur during sprinting are a significant concern in football, not just because of the frequency with which they occur, but also because they are notoriously difficult to rehabilitate, which underscores the need for effective prevention through targeted exercise programs. By Charles D. Kenyon, MS, RSCC, and Marcus C.C.W. Elliott, MD Originally published in the Lower Extremity Review Among US team sport athletes, football players are particularly prone to injury as a result of the ballistic demands of their sport. As such it is imperative to identify areas within all levels of football that provide high-yield opportunities for …

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At P3, our primary focus has been on peak performance and injury prevention in U.S. professional power-based sports, including baseball, basketball, football, volleyball and soccer. Power is directly proportional to distance and force, but indirectly proportional to time. Its development is paramount, regardless of the specific sport and percentage of each energy system involved, because many critical movements are executed as forcefully and quickly as possible. Even intermittent sports of long continuous duration, such as basketball, soccer and rugby, involve repeated explosions. Although these explosive movements are a major component of sports, a significant part of many athlete’s conditioning has …

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It is well known that an athlete’s mental ability plays a huge role in performance. Although mental and physical systems are interlinked very tightly, P3 paid little attention to the mental side of performance as compared to the physical side, due to the fact that it had been next to impossible to quantify. Thanks to breakthroughs in neuro-technology, this is changing. Recently, P3 partnered with Neurotopia as a means of better understanding and improving peak mental performance of athletes. Neurotopia provides our athletes the worlds most advanced neuro-diagnostic technology, along with the leading experts in Quantitative EEG and neuro-physiology. The …

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Dr. Elliott’s groundbreaking research on NFL hamstring injuries has recently been published by the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Here is a link to the abstract. We posted about the importance of the study a few months ago, and how we hope the research and findings from this exhaustive study will serve to reduce hamstring muscle strains in sports where hamstring injuries are common, and address more of the underlying issues surrounding injury prevention. At P3, we believe teams need to do more to assess each individual athlete’s injury predispositions. Certain athletes are predisposed to specific injuries. For example, athletes …

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At P3 we are not only applying the most relevant and advanced science to performance and injury prevention we are creating it. Dr. Marcus Elliott, along with Bertram Zarins, M.D., John W. Powell, PhD, ATC, and Charles D. Kenyon, have been notified that their ground breaking research titled, Hamstring Muscle Strains In the NFL: A Ten Year Epidemiological Study, has just been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Sports Medicine. The importance of this study cannot be overstated when taking into account the impact it will have on American Football and other sports. Despite the high frequency and …

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