In this episode we discuss some of the technologies revolutionizing human performance and physical therapy.

We took a little break during the busy summer here in Maine, but we’re back now with a brand new episode for you.

If you remember back to episode one, we discussed how fitness should be measurable, observable, and repeatable. The same holds true for health and wellness metrics, or during a patient’s journey though physical therapy. It is important to collect meaningful data that can be tracked reliably for many reasons, including:

- Being able to show a patient their progress through objective data. This progress can be small and incremental, and sensitive measurement can display these improvements.

- Making informed decisions about plan of care. If something isn’t measured, or if isn’t measured accurately, it likely won’t be properly addressed.

- Ability to measure the unseeable. There are many things that today’s technologies can pick up, that we can’t see with the naked eye, giving us more insight to better manage an athlete’s treatment or load management.

There is a company based right here in the greater Portland area that creates these technologies. Hawkin Dynamics in Westbrook makes world class force plates and dynamometers, allowing clinicians and fitness professionals the ability to precisely measure numerous metrics to assist in health and fitness decision making.

I sat down with one of their employees to fund out more about their products, and how they can be incorporated into the clinic and gym.

Hawkin Dynamics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hawkindynamics/