A Look At pMotion Amid Youth Sports Expansion

There are not many things that remain exempt from debate these days, but pMotion is built on two:

Math does not lie. And physics are undefeated.

The predictive health platform analyzes an athlete’s body to identify compensation sources and develop simple daily protocols to either prevent injury or catalyze recovery.

The tech is well-established with Olympians and professional teams, but pMotion is now looking to rapidly expand into youth sports via a smartphone-based app.

The company recently closed a seven-figure Series A raise and teamed with Unrivaled Sports and NJ Youth Soccer. More partnerships are in the works, CEO Jason Woo told Buying Sandlot.

“It’s not about a matter of if [an injury is] going to happen, it's when it's going to happen,” Woo said. “At the atomic level, all humans have to deal with gravity. All humans have compensation patterns, and we can mathematically define it and correct it.”

Founded by Dr. Keith Pyne, a medical advisor for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers
2-minute body scan using app
50+ points of measurement to ID compensation source
Analyzes impacts of downward, ground reaction forces on body
Creates individualized plans for prevention/recovery
Over 10K youth athletes currently on platform; partnerships will add about 920K

“It applies that same level of kind of rigor as if Dr. Pyne and our medical experts were in the room to be able to say, ‘These are the injuries that you will see based on your compensation patterns,’” Woo said. “We apply mathematics, neurology and we apply physiology to the anatomy to be able to actually predict that. We go through the entire kinetic chain. We identify the type of physics that are being created and distributed throughout the body. Where there is leakage is typically where you get injuries.”

Woo said the platform can measure the valgus angle in a knee — a critical factor in ACL injuries, particularly for female athletes — down to the degree before creating a daily regimen that eliminates the issue. The platform can also identify the precursors that lead to elbow and shoulder injuries in sports like baseball, flag a concussion based on neck range of motion and work to prevent Achilles tears.

The Unrivaled and NJYS partnerships feature on-site scans, but Woo said the tech can be used by parents at home just as effectively. The company has worked in recent years to tune its algorithm to account for development age in youth athletes, but the core function is uniform across generations. Woo said many parents begin using the platform after their kids; the tech has even helped octogenarians eliminate sciatic nerve pain.

PMotion is currently available through its partnerships, but Woo said the goal is wide adoption. It offers an annual subscription at $55 a month or seasonal at $65 a month; it also has a family package option. Woo said parents have told him he does not charge enough.

“Our goal is here to help as many people as we possibly can. Revenue will come when it comes,” he said. ““This program can be downloaded anywhere in the world. It can be performed anywhere, any household, any living room in the world, and a parent can do this to be able to do this. Our goal, our mission is to serve humanity. That's our ethos and how we're trying to operate. Our goal is to be able to help this product be within reach with anybody that has a phone.”