Monitoring an athlete's workload is crucial for optimizing performance and preventing injuries. We are excited to announce another advancement in our athlete monitoring system with the release of our new Distance Covered metric.

Golfers can now collect best-in-class movement data directly on the course. Plantiga analyzes every athlete’s unique movement signature by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise.

NBA announces Plantiga as an official partner through their 2024 Launchpad program.

USA Bobsled/Skeleton announces Plantiga as the newest addition to their list of official suppliers.

A breakthrough in wearable technology for health practitioners and elite sports teams

After spending 3+ years working with the world’s top organizations (and their athletes) across the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, the US and Canadian militaries, tennis, endurance, golf, and other sports associations, we are now launching our Plantiga platform for Sports Performance and Injury.

As a physiotherapist working out of the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic in Edmonton, AB I work with a large population of people (we’ll call them athletes here as most play sports anywhere from a national to recreational level) with knee injuries and have been lucky enough to spend a majority of my time on knee assessments and knee rehab.

In 2017, a reported 60 million Americans actively participated in regular, run-focused activities. With the exception of a few social and migratory animals, this seems to be a uniquely human pastime. Why is that? The answer to this question may reside in our evolutionary history. 

We’ve all heard that we should aim to walk at least 10,000 steps each day. While the number 10,000 originated from a 1965 Japanese marketing campaign, it is not far from the 7,500 steps per day that provide the majority of the reduction in mortality. The simple act of walking may seem trivial, but it is one of the most valuable steps we can take for our health (pun intended). 

Physical movement drives our health in many ways, yet it’s something we often take for granted. Understanding this relationship is the first step to improving and maintaining our ability to move, and experiencing its many benefits.

This is the final blog post in a four-part series on the Plantiga system and how it can help the individual patient, the athlete, the weekend warrior, the clinician, and the performance practitioner generate their own objective measures to optimize their health and manage recovery after injury.

Earlier this year Sean Ross-Ross, Plantiga’s CTO, posted about his recovery from a right ankle fracture and syndesmotic injury he suffered in November 2019 after slipping on a wet dock. In this post, I review Sean’s Plantiga data and discuss his rehabilitation progress, 7 months later.

For the last few weeks I’ve been assessing individuals exclusively via telephone or video due to COVID-19 precautions. There are some clear benefits to a Telehealth practice: patients don’t need to travel or pay for parking and I can easily show web-based resources with a screen share. Studies have shown that for chronic musculoskeletal complaints and concussion there is a high level of agreement between in-person and Telehealth assessments and patient satisfaction is high (1–3).