LOOKING FOR 8-15 Girls HS VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS "preferably" from "one team" to participate in an evaluation of a New Mouthguard-Device which is a Hybrid wrt to a MORA Splint Appliance and a MOOO PRI Splint Appliance.This appliance is based off of a November 2020 British Journal of Sports Medicine Article:
to look at specific data for this project:
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1. Can a Mouthguard-Device change: an Athlete's Skeletal and Muscle Physiology as well as Airway Dynamics to Improve Athletic Performance or at least Not Hinder performance
2. Any positive and/ or Negative Results Related to: Muscle Strength, Stick Grip Strength, Foot to Ground Platform / Core Balance, Flexibility and Better Stamina and Endurance ( especially during the last 10 minutes when most games are won or lost)
3. Mouthguard-Device Compliance:
Want to wear MG, Retentive Fit, Not Chew On It, Allow Hyration, Can Breathe,
Will Not Dislodge Upon Impact, and
Does Not Interfere with Speech
4. Can after you have trained, prepared and have played with your current mouthguard: Whether our new Mouthguard-Device could actually Improve Your Performance another 1-3-5 % besides making you Safer with Respect to Traumatic Dental Injuries
Read and Watch
How Our Mouthguard
Could Improve Your Performance
By Changing Your
Skeletal and Muscle Physiology as well as Your Airway Dymnamic
For a Field Hockey Players
If you have improved:
Strength, Balance, Flexiblity
as a result of:
Better Vertebral Alignment
Better Muscle Recruitment
Better Muscle Contraction
Better Grip Strength
Better Body Symmtrey
Better Core Balance
Better Foot to Ground Platform
Better Flexiblity
Better Range of Motion
Better Jumping Ability
Enhance Oxygen Flow By An Increased Airway Space
It can give you that competitive edge to be a better athlete!
What can it mean for a Field Hockey player?
Playing Field Hockey
at your optimal
"Fixed Jaw Position"
Can improve
Better Grip Mechanics
Better Swing Mechanics
Better Stance Mechanics
Better Hand-Eye-Bat-Ball
Coordination
Hit Ball Harder
Continue to Read Below!
Can Mouthguards Impact Athletic Performance?
What these videos below show is that:
1. The mouthguard as the only variable in the exercises is all that alters the athlete's ability to facilitate better these exercises.
2. The mouthguard as the only variable in the exercises is all that is changing the skeletal and muscular physiology of the athlete.
- Proceed to watch the videos below:
How important is Skeletal Alignment as it affects the Muscle Physiology of an athlete?
WATCH BELOW and SEE WHY it can be important.
A Mouthguard Is the Only Variable In Changing His Skeletal and Muscle Physiology!
How Important is Balance to an Athlete?
How Important Is Strength To An Athlete?
Is A Stronger Athlete Better Than A Weaker Athlete?
We believe if we can change for the athlete a better Crania-Mandibular-Cervical relationship as it relates posterior rotation of the cranium with its resultant FHP (Forward Head Posture), rounded shoulders, body asymmetry, lack of a reproducible maxilla-mandibular organic midline, Improper TMJ position all resultant from that posterior rotation of the cranium then and only then can we:
Improve their Vertebral Alignment
which in turn makes the athlete
Stronger as a result of a better Muscle Contraction and Grip Strength.
Also open the athlete's airway throughout the game to improve Stamina and Endurance.
As well as better Flexibilty, Balance and Range of Motion.
READ ON:
It takes months of preparation to prime an athlete for competition. It involves attitude, perserverance, rigorous training, practice time, nutrition and hydration regime, strength and conditioning, physical therapy especially as it relates to posture, balance, the influence of the muscle patterning and kinetematic body movement necessary for your sport. Your head coach and assistant coaches expertise, understanding what it takes to win and the studying of your opponent's strategies and how they might execute their game plan against you. The role of your certified athletic trainer with respect to preventive services, clinical evaluation of
diagnosis, immediate treatment care, rehabilitation, recovery and reconditioning. "It truly takes a village" to get a team ready to compete.
You are now in your best shape for game-time execution to succeed.
Still with that said - Can it be improved upon?
Our goal is to improve upon what your coaches, athletic trainers and fitness personel have prepared you for your first game.
Most games are won or lost in the last 5-10 minutes of the last half, 5-10 minutes of the final period or the last 3 innings of the game.
If you are in better strength and conditioning shape than your opponents during this critical time period of the game to be "stronger" at the end, so by adding to your already full "TOOLBOX", a new mouthguard to better your physiological state may help put you in a better position to execute with the game on the line.
We know the goal is:
"First" to play to your potential and do your best to be focused and then you will have a successful season. "Second" to make the Districts.
"Third" to win a Central Mass Title.
It all starts months before the season even begins. We know it takes a team approach that "village". But should mouthguards even be part of that role, even in sports where they are not mandatory.
We "HYBRID" a MORA Splint Appliance in the Form of a Type IV Mouthguard as well as MOOO PRI Splint Appliance taking into consideration:
Your Age: It works best we find if you are at least 16 1/2 years old
Dental Occlusion
TMJ
Body Asymmetry
Cranio-Mandibular-Cervical Relationship as it relates to Posterior Rotation of the Cranium with its resultant
Forward Head Posture
Procedure For Mouthguard Study:
1. If you are under 18 yo you must be accompanied by a parent.
2. You must fill out a Health History.
3. Be pre-tested to see if you are a good candidate for mouthguard.
4. Attend a 1 hour lecture about why and what we believe you will experience with respect to skeletal and physiological changes in your body that may occur
5. Oral examination followed by dental impression of your upper teeth (However, your family dentist can take the impression and mail it to me also)
6. Return 1 week later
7. Return for equilibration of the new mouth device once it is fabricated. Photographs of mouth device positioned in and out of mouth as well as video documentation displaying exercises related to changes in muscle strength, breathing dynamic, flexibility and balance.
8. Testing criteria with or without your current Boil/Bite mouthguards
9. Leave with mouthguard.
10. Fill out questionaire evaluation form and return it after season is over.
11. You give Dr Portnoy the right to show any of the above photograpghs and videos with and without mouth device for lecture, demonstration and educational purposes.
10. There is no cost for participants.
11. You may opt out of project at anytime: If device hinders your play; Your prefer to go back to wearing your old mouthguard; Or just want to return mouth device.
12. There are no financial costs to participants.
13. Team must Elected Parent as Liaison for Dr Portnoy.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, JP Haughey, Peter Fine November 2020
We prefer athletes bring their current mouthguards so that we can pre-test and post-test to see if our device works better. We believe it makes no sense to use a new mouthguard if you do not need to. Why even consider changing from your current mouthguard if it is working best for you and your sport?
If you are interested in more information please Call us @ 508-366-1700
OR
Click Here to e-mail us your information OR call @ 508-366-1700:
- Under appointment information select "Other" to describe the nature of your appointment include: childs name, your sport, your age (athletes should at least 16 1/2 yo) and we will get back to you.
Let me address the following points before we continue:
1. To date, no published independent study has verified the positive effect of mouthguards and performance. However they have also shown to not have any negative effect on human performance.
2. The ASD ( Academy for Sports Dentistry ) Position Statement on use of Mouthguards and other Oral Appliances for Performance of Enhancement and Strength.
a. The Academy for Sports Dentistry (ASD) has not yet (2011) identified any sound, independently peer-reviewed, published scientific research which either supports or refutes the wearing of any type of mouthguard or oral appliance for athletic performance and strength enhancement. The Academy for Sports Dentistry supports continued validated scientific research on the issue of performance enhancement.
Approved by the Academy for Sports Dentistry Board of DIrectors 1/27/2011
Finally
Let me address store bought Boil/Bite Mouthguards and our Custom-Fit Pressure Laminated Mouthguards next:
1. Boil/Bite Mouthguards as you see at the games you attend, your athletes are "struggling" to keep them in their mouths.
2. Most everybody involved "in" and "playing" high school sports has an "aversion" to the "contraption" we call a mouthguard. However it is mandatory in Football, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey and Lacrosse.\
3. The athletes, at least I have worked with, have told me as follows. "You struggle to keep it in your mouth", "when you can't keep it in you fish hook it", "you try cutting the backs off"," you chew on it", "you can't wait to spit it out after play has stopped", "you can't hydrate with it in", "you can't talk with it", "you can't breathe properly with it".
It is the "inability to breathe properly" as a result of an "ill-fitting" mouthguard that will "hasten fatigue" especially as your athlete logs more playing minutes during a game.
A. I'd like to add that Boil/Bite mouthguards that I've seen recently are getting better. The key to a good mouthguard is one that fits properly and doesn't dislodge upon impact. If your boil/bite mouthguard is working this way for you then a custom mouthguard is optional from my perspective.
