ACL Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.