In the world of high performance, athletes are seeking a competitive edge: to be faster, stronger, more powerful, and more reactive.
A performance assessment for non-injured athletes; DEFRAG gives you a clear understanding of your body's reactive stabilization under stress.
DEFRAG is a sport-specific movement combine that evaluates how well your nervous system adapts to increasing external demands specific to your sport. This approach guides practitioners in identifying and addressing primary dysfunctions that need to be treated or re-trained, ensuring the body maintains optimal motor control while successfully meeting any challenge.
Grip-Heavy Sports: Designed for baseball, hockey, tennis, and golf athletes.
Multidirectional Athletics: Ideal for football, soccer, basketball, parkour, and climbing enthusiasts.
Running: From sprinters to ultra-marathoners.
Cycling: For road, mountain, BMX, gravel, and track cyclists.
Weightlifting: powerlifting, olympic lifting and crossfit
At the core of DEFRAG is an innovative use of the refractory period—the brief recovery phase following an effort—to evaluate the body's reactive stability. This approach offers a unique window into the athlete's neuromuscular control and adaptability under dynamic conditions.
The athlete progresses through a carefully designed series of movements that challenge the body's stability and control. During the refractory period, when the nervous system is momentarily less responsive, the practitioner performs targeted tests to reveal potential weak links or areas of instability. This critical time frame allows for an accurate assessment of how the body manages reactive forces and maintains motor control in real-time.
Once weak links are identified, the Entry Point Assessment System comes into play. This method provides novel input to the athlete's nervous system, aiming to recalibrate and enhance its function. By engaging the nervous system with specific, targeted stimuli, the Entry Point system promotes effective force closure, or centration of the affected joints. This not only restores stability and the control around joints but also ensures that the body can generate and transmit force more efficiently across all planes of motion.
The combination of the refractory period analysis and Entry Point interventions allows for a more precise and personalized approach to optimizing performance. It provides immediate feedback on the athlete's current state, identifying where their body's response is breaking down and directing the practitioner to the most effective corrective strategies.
This approach goes beyond traditional assessments by integrating real-time neuromuscular responses, making it possible to fine-tune the athlete's reactive capabilities and promote sustainable, high-level performance.