ACL Resources

The Athlete Lab founder, Dr. Trent Nessler, developed a passion for trying to help athletes reduce risk for ACL injuries after becoming frustrated with the current methods for assessing risk and addressing with programming. After 25 years of work and assessing movement on 90,000+ sport and tactical athletes, Dr. Nessler has developed a very effective methodology for preventing ACL injuries and reducing risk for reinjury for those returning to sport following surgery. Here you will find various programs and education related to the ACL prevention.

Athlete Performance Screen

The Athlete Performance Screen, developed by Dr. Trent Nessler, is a tool that parents can use to screen their athlete for movement patterns that increase risk for injury and which have a negative impact on performance. This easy to use screening tool takes 30 min and will give parents an insight to how their athlete is moving and where the biggest areas of opportunity are to mitigate risk for injury and improve athletic performance. For your copy, please email us at The Athlete Lab

Dr. Nesslers 2+ Decades ACL Prevention

Dr. Nessler has spent over 2 decades researching ways to aid in preventing injuries in every level of athlete. This short video is from a news story done in 2008 on Dr. Nessler’s work on prevention of ACL injuries in high school athletes in Middle Tennessee.

Dr. Nessler's Assessment - The Go To For Sports PTs

When Dr. Nessler created the ViMove+ AMI, he never imagined how it would be adopted by sports PTs all over the country to assess athletes for return to sport after an ACL reconstruction. In this video, hear how the largest sports medicine provider in St. Louis uses the ViMove+ AMI to make more informed decisions for return to sport.

Dr. Nessler Guest Appearance on Crackin The Backs

Dr. Nessler is a sought after internationally recognized expert in the area of ACL rehabilitation and prevention. In this episode of Crackin The Backs Podcast, Dr. Nessler shares his passion with the Dr. Spencer (President of the NFL Chiropractic Association) and Dr. Terry (Chiropractor for USA Taekwondo), where they talk ACL prevention, ACL rehab and assessing movement in athletes.

Dr. Nessler's Education Series

Dr. Nessler is an internationally recognized expert in the area of movement assessment, sports biomechanics and training athletes for ACL prevention and performance enhancement. This section will provide you with several webinars, sports medicine conferences and interviews with Dr. Nessler on ACL injuries, sports biomechanics and injury prevention.

ACL Safe & Strong YouTube

Out of a desire to impact the epidemic rate of ACL injuries in youth sports, Dr. Nessler created the ACL Safe & Strong. Initially developed as ACL Play It Safe program, this program has been used by 10,000+ athletes across the US and has been shown to reduce not only ACL injuries but all lower limb injuries. When this program is done at the end of practice, it will result in not only an impact on injuries but will also drive power output and improved performance enhancement.

ACL Return to Sport

One of the hardest decisions to make for an ACL injured athlete is when is it safe to return to sport. In this presentation, Dr. Nessler shares with NFL and collegiate athletic trainers what the current research is, what mass data is teaching us and how to make safer more informed decisions for return to sport.

ViMove+ AMI (Athletic Movement Index)

Developed by the founder of The Athlete Lab, Dr. Trent Nessler, the ViMove+ AMI has revolutionized how we assess athlete’s movement for risk and performance enhancement issues. Since its initial release, the ViMove+ AMI is now used in 5 different countries and has been used to assess 90,000+ sport and tactical athletes. Used in professional sports, military applications and in first responders, the data collected from the ViMove+ AMI has changed how we think about athletic movement and how we train to improve. This series of videos, interviews and webinars, Dr. Nessler talks about the ViMove+ AMI and what he has learned from it.

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