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Tennis Screenings

Nearly 25 million people in the US play tennis.¹ The injury prevalence rate reported for competitive and recreational players is 1.5 injuries per player per year.²

Tennis injuries are of two broad types:

• Traumatic injuries (sprains, muscle pulls, and fractures) make up about one-third of tennis injuries. These injuries are not easily prevented, nor are they particularly related to tennis technique.
• Overuse injuries (strains, tendonitis, tendinosis, and low back pain) make up about two-thirds of tennis injuries. These injuries may be related to technique or to alterations in the athlete's musculoskeletal system.

SSPT's tennis assessments focus on helping athletes maximize their tennis performance while minimizing risk of injury. Our screenings encompass a range of evaluations and analyses, including:

• Tennis history: Evaluates old and current injuries and reviews training schedules and other factors that can affect current or future injuries.
• Biomechanical assessment: Determines how your anatomical structure, muscle flexibility, and strength influence the way you play and evaluates adaptations that may not produce injury by themselves but may limit the ability to withstand the inherent physiological or mechanical demands of tennis.
• Tennis form analysis: Evaluates your kinetic chain; assesses how you perform the sequential movements of body segments to build force from the ground through the hips and trunk to the shoulder and into the arm, hand, and racquet; and identifies inefficiencies and potential risks of injury.

Benefits

Your SSPT tennis assessment will provide you with:

• Strength and flexibility exercises—specific to the demands of tennis and your individual needs—that reduce your risk of injury and optimize your performance
• Techniques that will maximize your biomechanical advantage and protect you from excessive forces and overuse

We will be happy to conduct your assessment in conjunction with your tennis coach and/or conditioning trainer.

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¹ Study commissioned by the USTA and the Tennis Industry Association, 2005.

² Kuhne C, Zettl R, Nast-Kolb D. Injuries and frequency of complaints in competitive tennis and leisure sports. Sportverletz Sportschaden 2004;18:85-89.