How to use the cutting movement assessment score (CMAS) to understand performance and injury risk

Why should practitioners use qualitative methods to understand cutting movement quality? Many team sports are characterized by a high frequency of high intensity actions such as sprinting, jumping, tackling, dribbling, kicking or turning. These occur during key moments of the game: goal scoring, assists, defensive interceptions, blocks. Among these high intensity actions, change of direction (COD) is one of the key performance indicators that practitioners commonly address in their interventions. For instance, a football player can perform around 600 turns of 0-90º and 100 turns of 90-180º per...