Athletic Shoulder

Athletic Shoulder is currently working in a number of sports at an elite level to help to solve shoulder performance problems @Ben Ashworth is working as a consultant with teams and individuals to help solve shoulder performance problems. He graduated as a physiotherapist in 1997 with Masters in physiotherapy and strength & conditioning, and has over 16 years experience in the daily management of athletes, recently at Arsenal Football Club where he spent 6 years as 1st team Physiotherapist & now Ben is currently the Director of Performance at AC Sparta Prague. Ben’s interest & experience in shoulders developed from his time in professional rugby at London Wasps and was accelerated through his work with the British Judo team in the lead up to London 2012. Ben is currently working towards completion of a PhD in the area of Shoulder performance monitoring at Liverpool Hope University, a centre of excellence for upper limb and shoulder research (focussing on fatigue, return to play markers and neuromuscular profiling for performance). This work continues from recent publications around the now well established use of force platforms for shoulder strength testing developed at Saracens rugby and currently applied in MLB & NFL teams, British tennis, Premiership rugby, England cricket & Olympic & collegiate sports.