Visual-Cognitive Reactive Triple Hop Test
The VCR Triple hop test has the potential to be a better test for return to sport post-rehab or measuring injury risk than a purely triple hop testfarrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?. The standard Triple Hop Test measures isolated physical function. The VCR Triple Hop Test measure physical function in an environment that requires multisensory integration, and cognitive processing which better simulates a sport environmentfarrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023t?.
How to Perform
For all hopping assessments, leg dominance was defined as the participant’s preferred leg to kick a ballfarrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?. # Psychometrics
Test-Retest Reliability
Farraye et al validated the VCR Triple hop using FitLights™farrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?.
Participants performed a visual-cognitive single-leg triple hop where they were given a “GO” color and the rest of the colors were “NO GO”farrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?. The FitLight™ system would flash the 4 colors independently at 1.5sec intervalsfarrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?. When the “GO” color appeared, the participant would perform the triple hop. During the triple hop, the participant would need to watch for a random sequence of 3 colors to flash which the participant would need to recite after landingfarrayeDevelopmentReliabilityVisualCognitive2023?.