ArmCare Elite (ACE) is a specialized community that will launch in 2023. Membership is free and exclusive to experts who hold dual credentials, meaning they are both Certified ArmCare Specialists and Certified Pitching Biomechanists. The community offers remote and in-person events focused on deep data-led insights for individualized player development and so much more.
Expert Community Access: Like-minded experts will utilize the ACE community to exchange ideas, receive thought provoking questions, and supply answers for the group. The community will also help shape new educational offerings as it relates to advanced player development strategies, sports science, athletic wellness, tactical strategy, and talent identification. All members are invited to attend four quarterly meetings that we call Game Days, that include select speakers, sports science applications, and new updates planned by ArmCare.com.
Access to Exclusive ArmCareIQs and ArmCareFX: Separate yourself from the rest. ArmCare Elite members are going to learn new methodologies and new metrics to gain a competitive advantage that will be above and beyond those who do not have the dual credential. Right now there is plenty of public education in existing ArmCare IQs and ArmCare FX segments on Youtube. These offerings feature short lectures and applied research reviews from public sources. These information sources are educating the masses, but imagine having access to unpublished data and new discoveries that are not available to anyone else for one year’s time? As an ArmCare Elite Member, you will have exclusive insights before anyone else in the world of sport and get a major head start on your competition.
Eligibility to attend our in-person ArmCare Elite Coach Summits. ArmCare Elite Membership is your key to advanced education and opportunities to network in-person. You will have a chance to have the keys to the kingdom and register for our 3-Day ArmCare Elite Coach Summit. This exclusive event is in-person and builds upon being a dual Certified ArmCare Specialist and Certified Pitching Biomechanist by providing an advanced certification called the ArmCare Elite (ACE) Coach. As an overview, this event will cover all aspects of training and throwing programming guided by strength and range of motion assessments that are blended with 3D motion capture for the ultimate coaching education experience.
Special Pricing and Offers for ArmCare Products and Services. As an ArmCare Elite Member, you will receive special offers on furthering your education and training approaches that includes savings on technology, training gear, clothing and mini-courses. The savings provided will pay for the investment you have made toward your education in addition to all the other competitive advantages offered by being an ACE member.
Member Spotlight on our Website: As an ArmCare Elite Member you have extreme credibility and technical know-how in the industry that only a fraction of the population has understanding of or can implement. For this reason, we want to help provide visibility for you and your business so that people who come to our website can contact you. This option will increase your marketing outreach and provide social proof that you are ELITE in sport. As we add members, this offering will be under construction.
WANT TO JOIN? You can purchase our Certified ArmCare Specialist Course and Certified Pitching Biomechanist Course separately to join. Following the completion of both courses, you will receive an invitational email when ACE is ready to roll.
Further questions about our ArmCare Elite Membership or any of the educational products offered, please email info@armcare.com
“Simply put - ArmCare Elite members aim to eradicate injuries and dominate throwing sport performance through sharing expertise as it relates to optimizing training and workload demands through data-led insights.”
- Ryan Crotin - Executive Vice-President, ArmCare.com - Jordan Oseguera - Director of Pitching Performance, ArmCare.com
Designed to Advance Assessment & Training Practices
Advance throwing health, velocity and command using player-led dynamometry and range of motion testing.
Learn new key metrics and how to integrate them into customized programs for your athletes. A must for any coach or clinician.
Extensive education: over 9 sections comprised of 30+ videos
Learn how to formulate an effective and streamlined monitoring, communication, individualized training and evaluation process for your athletes
Comprehend multi-dimensional monitoring criteria called Key Performance Metrics and how training and throwing programs are adjusted based on data
Master testing procedures that involve fixed dynamometry including testing frequencies to ensure continuous and consistent measurements
Learn about watch, warning and medical alerts concerning relative strength, shoulder balance, strength velocity ratios, arm fatigue and arm recovery measures
Learn how to use an athlete management system to decrease time to action and access raw data for customized analyses
Acquire deep understanding of how to algorithmically train athletes based on data that includes preparation, strength and recovery practices and templates
Understand our SPEAR training concept that involves new training approaches based on cross-education training research
Separate yourself from your competition in scouting and player development by including strength analytics in player projection and individualized training programs
"I was first introduced to the ArmCare team in 2020, and was immediately impressed not just with the powerful and intuitive app they were building but with the ambitious vision they shared towards changing the way baseball approaches arm health, preparation and performance from little league to the highest levels of baseball."
- Ben Brewster - Tread Athletics
"Excited to now be a Certified Arm Care Specialist. I'm always looking to improve my performance as a clinician so I can help my athletes improve THEIR performance! I learned so much great information that is already helping me in my practice and more importantly helping my pitchers. I'm loving the concrete data I have on my athletes now to really help solidify their arm care programming.”
- Michael Voltz Owner/Physical Therapist at The Movement Science Project
"The ArmCare Specialist Certification Course is a very detailed course that matches up with the philosophy I have as an Athletic Trainer. This certification course gives you all of the details to need to fully understand the implementation of the ArmCare platform and how to best utilize the data obtained. The evidence-based information ArmCare has used to develop their platform and certification course allows me to make an all-encompassing approach to healthcare with the subjective, objective and performance data. The instant data you receive from the dynamometers allows you, your coaches, and strength & conditioning coaches to adjust an individual’s program so you can manage their volume daily, weekly, and monthly. Their coaches platform is easy to navigate and allows you to view your entire teams data. I would recommend this platform and certification to any overhead sport clinician who manages shoulder and elbow injuries.”
- Jarrett Schweim MS, ATC, LAT University of Florida Baseball Athletic Trainer
“The ArmCare Specialist Course is one of the best courses I have taken. It has a great balance of background research, clinical expertise and actionable points. Whether you are new to the baseball industry, or have been working with baseball players for years, this course will likely revolutionize the way you monitor and intervene with your athletes.”
- Justin Dudley PT, DPT, SCS Founder Cascade Sports Injury Prevention & Physical Therapy Clinical Faculty University of Colorado School of Medicine obert Henry
Simplify. Individualize. Optimize.
Blend strength analytics for the throwing arm with 3D motion capture metrics to optimize the pitching delivery & expedite performance. This course provides a systematic roadmap to evaluate 3D motion capture & determine how to reinforce current mechanics, or when to adjust them. A must for anyone working with baseball pitchers who want to get the most out of their coaching, training & rehabilitation programs.
Extensive education: over 10 sections comprised of 30+ videos
Understand key details in the delivery that can impact efficiency and increase injury risk from toes to finger tips.
Comprehend a clear algorithm to address pain and poor performance that involves improvement in strength and length along with achieving optimization benchmarks to maximize performance and injury protection.
Work through case studies to determine what training approaches to take on and gain familiarity in understanding potential changes in graphical data that warrant greater hyper-personalization in training.
Learn deep insights into the kinematic sequence, the order of peak speeds across segments in the delivery, to determine when athletes need acceleration, deceleration, or rhythmic training to maximize health, velocity and command.
Learn critical throwing arm kinematics and kinetic data to better understand how to train the throwing arm to handle abrupt changes in position from stride foot contact through to maximal internal rotation of the throwing arm after ball release.
Acquire deep understanding of how to algorithmically train athletes based on both strength and biomechanical data that guides coaches in making the best possible coaching decisions after athletes have experienced pain or poor performance.
Be the ultimate Pitching Biomechanist-generalist that will allow you to fix physical and mechanical problems as well as gain a stronger understanding of how optimization factors can be used in scouting and collegiate recruiting.
Testimonials
Brian Bannister
Director of Pitching, San Francisco Giants
Ken Knutson
Pitching Coordinator, New York Mets
Joe Beimel
Owner of Beimel Elite Athletics, 13-Year MLB Pitcher
Shanon Fronek
Physical Therapist, Seattle Mariners
Course Curriculum
The ArmCare Specialist Course includes 9 online course modules worth 6 contact hours of continuing education
– Future Vision for Player Development & Scouting – How data-led training can make you a better coach – Major Causes of the Injury Epidemic – Assessment Tools – Arm Soreness & Pain – Importance of arm strength
– Performance Pyramid – Player first approach – Observation Types
– Observation Windows – Exam Types – Exam Frequency – Range of Motion Tests – Strength Tests – Data Capture Features
– Relative Strength – Shoulder Balance – Strength Velocity Ratio – Arm Fatigue – Arm Recovery – Other Metrics to Consider
– Data-Led Coaches Adjustments – Decision Making Matrices
– Velocity Enhancement Programming – Velocity Enhancement Research – Biomechanics of Holds – Off Season Integration – Training Age – Performance Measures – Inclusion Criteria for Velo Programs
– Fatigue Induced Injury Model – Cross Education Training – SPEAR Training Algorithm – Future of Data-led Training – Rate of Torque Development – Max Strength Endurance – Customized Training Platform
– Exam Workflow – Fresh Exam Schedule – Player First Approach – Data Review – Action Plan
Students will be able to explain factors that are associated with altered arm position that can lead to injury.
Students will be able to delineate key attributes associated with Health. Velocity and Command that are related to altered throwing arm position and barriers in maintaining repeatable throwing deliveries.
Students will be able to describe velocity enhancement principles including key biomechanical indicators associated with high velocity throwing from which clinicians need to address in later stages of rehabilitation.
Students will be able to recognize strength and range of motion derivatives to advance arm speed that involves the Strength-Velocity Ratio (lbs/mph).
Students will be able to summarize command principles including key metrics that are indicative of changes in throwing accuracy and connect such elements to strength and range of motion data.
Students will recognize when to communicate with patient’s skill coaches to assess mechanics in their athletes that may be contributing to poor performance and fatigue.
Students will be able to identify major causes of injury and interpret the quality of published studies through effect size calculations in determining the best evidenced-based approach to training, workload management, and biomechanics.
Students will identify the continuum of fatigue to movement compensation as it relates to the biomechanical causes of injury and apply fatigue metrics in determining how to scale training so that the throwing arm is not over or under-trained.
Students will be able to identify biomechanical causation of injuries and apply shoulder imbalance metrics in dynamometry and range of motion restrictions in remediating such asymmetries.
Students will recognize errors in using portable dynamometry in their clinical and team settings.
Students will be able to apply a thorough dynamic warm-up routine with their patients and interpret maximum force attributes during the warm-up process.
Students will be able decipher the differences between the current strength and range of motion testing technologies and will recognize their advantages and limitations as it relates to their clinical approaches.
Students will be able to classify arm strength analytics that is meaningful to assessing fatigue, recovery, and weakness.
Students will be able to determine when athletes indicate poor function, imbalance, and normalized weakness in strength.
Students will be able to evaluate the intersection of strength and range of motion to determine when strength and tendon length relationships are out of balance.
Students will be able to distinguish the training hierarchy in the SPEAR training model to advance performance and minimize injury risk.
Students will match range of motion and arm strength data with the correct training approach in the SPEAR model in creating individualized training programs based on fatigue, inhibited recovery, and weakness.
Students will categorize the appropriate exercise selections based on strength and range of motion data that are aligned with the SPEAR model of training.
Students will be able to design an appropriate schedule for testing, including how to rotate patients or athletes between stations to minimize time in analyzing changes in strength and range of motion.
Students will be able to explain the important aspects involved in the pre-exam warm-up to prepare the athlete for competition, as well as reduce any risk of pain and discomfort prior to testing for maximum strength.
The ArmCare Pitching Biomechanist Course includes 10 online course modules worth 9.5 contact hours of continuing education
– Regional Interdependance – 2+2 Rule – Multidisciplinary Monitoring Strategy – ArmCare Reversing Aging Effects – Elbow Torque – Velocity Relationship – Fitt’s Law Continuum – Practice versus Game Biomechanics – The Critical Instant in the Delivery – Post Injury Performance – Foundations of Biomechanics – Motion Capture Evaluation Pathways – Biomechanical Performance Process
– Injured athlete case study examining the importance of identifying arm strength deficits – Implementing Arm Care testing procedures into the daily practice plan in monitoring pitchers – Integration of the Coaches Portal Dashboard to make actionable decisions related to workload, individualized arm care and pitch counts – Fatigue-Induced Injury Model – Strength and Coordination Adjustment Decision Tree – MLB Organizational Communication Structure for Integrated Biomechanical Data – Integrated Performance Loop from Observation to Implementation – Strength Matters Most Concepts – Force-Velocity by Muscle Length Curve – Co-Contraction and Muscle Slack – Rate of Torque Development and Microdosing – Serratus Anterior Focused Training for Arm Positioning – Inverted Closed-Chain Co-Contraction Training
– Timing and Hallmark Events Overview – Developmental Throwing Mechanics – Center of Mass and Momentum – Stride Length Optimization – Ground Reaction Force Impacts on Stride Length – Lead Knee Mechanics Influenced by Ground Reaction Force – Lead Knee Mechanics Influencing Velocity in Association to Stride Length – Stride Length and Drive Knee Loading Mechanics – Compensatory Stride Length Impacts on the Lower Body Chain – Linear - Angular Momentum Exchange – Throwing Arm Lag Through Transverse Plane Momentum Compensation – Foot and Ankle Biomechanics – Lower Body Influences on Throwing Arm Timing – Drive Leg Glute Dominant Training Approaches – Stride Leg Blocking Training Approaches
– Summation of Speeds Principle – Roll-Through Pitching Mechanics – Complete Kinematic Sequence – Proximal Kinematic Sequence – 7 S Approach to Rotational Mechanics Evaluation – Hip-Shoulder Separation and Dissociation Evaluation – Rotational Impacts on Throwing Arm Force Properties – Trunk Tilt and Shoulder Abduction – Reflexive Perturbation and Hip Lock Training
– Evaluation of Sequence, Speeds, Speed Gain, Speed Ratio and Slope
– 3D Optical Tracking Example – The Big Three Forces and Torques – Hyperangulation – Elbow Flexion Concepts in Lowering Elbow Varus Torque – Introduction to Biomechanical Efficiency Grades – Differences in Biomechanical Efficiency and Skill Level – Challenges with Normalization Approaches in Reporting – Throwing Arm Altered Patterns Identified in Force-Torque Data – Fixed and Yielding Isometrics to Reduce Compensation and Increase Stress-Shielding
– Identifying the dangers of data normalization and missing key insights gleaned from 2D video – Athlete experienced hip femoral acetabular impingement leading to hip labral reconstruction, SLAP tear and forearm flexor strain arising from the absence of the Strength and Coordination decision tree
– Four case studies presented to determine approaches via the Strength and Coordination Decision Tree and its optimization factors
– Avoid Death By the Cure – The Only Study to Ever Connect Arm Force to Injury – The Future of Biomechanical Research
– Drive and Stride Leg – Proximal Deceleration – Inverted Dual Vector Co-Contraction – High Strength Carries – Stress-Shielding Training – Advanced Activation Strategies – Eccentric Abdominal Training
About Ryan Crotin
PhD, CSCS, RSCC
Dr. Ryan Crotin is the Executive Vice President of ArmCare.com focusing on global adoption of individualized training and assessment through a data-led approach. He also is the driving force behind ArmCareU and the ArmCare Elite community, being a comprehensive educational stream and network to advance baseball health and performance.
Ryan completed his PhD at the University at Buffalo studying fatigue-induced movement compensations in baseball pitchers.His post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Pennsylvania focused on joint function and biomechanics to determine potential causes of throwing injuries.
His latest position in MLB was Director of Performance Integration for the Los Angeles Angels overseeing strength and conditioning efforts and sport science to apply physiologic-based data to improve the way athletes are coached, receive clinical care, and scouting as it relates to athletic profiling for the amateur draft.
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