”We have one athlete who we started using the sensors with 5 months post ACL reconstruction and having this data and tracking it over time has helped so much psychologically with her. After the first session using the sensors I looked at the asymmetry intensity data and immediately saw that although she was looking very balanced on the lower end intensities, we were actually not exposing her to high-intensity work to push the injured limb as we thought we were, It’s also been great for me to present this data to the coaches. Our coaches are very analytical and having this data visualized in such a simple way can give the coach confidence that things are improving

Alex Rodriguez, ATC. Steven F.Austin University

”The go-to tool at the moment is GPS, which is fantastic at telling people what the external load is, in terms of distance covered and speed, but it’s most accurate in bigger spaces at slower speeds. Research shows that if you are interested in accelerations, you have to measure closer to the point of interest. We know rehab needs to be high accelerations and decelerations and quite chaotic. The concept of ‘control to chaos’ is brilliant, but what we can’t do at the moment is measure chaos. GPS can describe what you’ve done but not necessarily fully explain it, which is where IMU Step could help.

Mark ArmitageUniversity of Suffolk

”The whole point of measuring things is to get accurate information about what’s going on and the IMU data gives us that information in the field, in training, and in competition. Therefore we can specialize every drill every minute every repetition and make sure that what we think is happening is happening and ultimately plan out in detail what we need to do to get to where we need to get to. I think that the athlete got excited because first of all, he could see that improvement over time he could see these things getting better he could see himself improving. It also gave him reassurance that what we were doing was a hundred percent correct. That reassurance is a huge part of any sort of rehab program where confidence is always going to be a challenge. So the data provides reassurance that yes you physically can do this and yes this drill is getting out of you what you’re capable of.

Daniel GreenwoodUniversity of Memphis