Using Instrumented Treadmill for Sports Performance
Three Ways Instrumented Treadmills are Used for Sports Performance
Athletes and coaches of today are looking for more than intuition; they want real-time data revealing exactly how the body moves. Bertec’s FIT5 Instrumented treadmill turns athletic conditioning into powerful data helping athletes enhance performance, prevent injury, and accelerate rehabilitation.
“The split-belt treadmill allows users to identify asymmetries, control loading during recovery, and optimize movement for peak performance.” shares Meghan Lukac, Product Manager at Bertec.
Instrumented Treadmills Enhance Sports Performance
To optimize energy and movement efficiency, athletes can track key metrics such as stride symmetry, center of pressure distribution, and loading patterns. Analyzing this data can be used to adjust weight distribution and balance, while also optimizing foot strike or maximizing propulsive force, thereby reducing wasted motion.
Instrumented Treadmills Prevent Injury
Many injuries don’t appear overnight; they develop from subtle imbalances, asymmetrical movements, or altered loading patterns. Instrumented treadmills give athletes, clinicians, and coaches the tools to see the subtle deviations in real-time, long before dysfunction or pain occurs.
With the ability to track gait variability, force distribution, and asymmetry, coaches are able to spot irregularities and emerging red flags during regular performance testing. Replace guesswork with hard numbers that inform individualized prehab programs. Runners, athletes, and patients can correct inefficient patterns before they lead to overuse injuries or compensatory breakdowns. Instrumented treadmills provide real-time gait data that can help catch risky movement patterns before they cause injuries.
Using Instrumented Treadmills for Rehabilitation
The FIT5 treadmill enables a personalized protocol and adjusts to the athlete as they regain strength, stability, and neuromuscular control. With data collection from an instrumented treadmill, clinicians can track how much force each limb is bearing to ensure appropriate loading during recovery. The FIT5 treadmill can adjust independent belt speed to assist in regaining proper gait symmetry during rehabilitation.
Monitor improvements in gait variability, balance, and stride mechanics, providing athletes with the confidence and precision they need to train smarter, recover stronger, and perform at their best.
Instrumented treadmills allow for precision and data-driven answers. Athletes and coaches no longer must guess how to improve; they can perform with confidence backed by data every step of the way.
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