The Science
The science
Lab-grade biomechanics, measured at the foot.
For years, understanding your running form meant a treadmill, a camera array, and a lab appointment. Motion Vitals moves the measurement to where the load actually happens — your foot — and does it on every stride of every run.
Measured, not estimated
A wrist device infers your run from motion at your arm and averages it over a mile. The MotionPod sits at the foot with a lab-grade inertial sensor — an accelerometer and gyroscope sampling each foot strike directly. That's the difference between an estimate and a measurement: impact, ground contact, cadence, and symmetry read from the strike itself.
The Vitals Score
Raw biomechanics are noisy. The Vitals Score turns them into one number — a read on how a given run loaded your body — built from impact, symmetry, cadence, and ground contact. It's designed to tell you two things a pace graph can't: what to work on, and when to back off.
Wear-adjusted cumulative load
Injuries rarely come from one bad run — they come from load accumulating faster than the body adapts. Motion Vitals models cumulative load over time so overload shows up before it becomes a setback. This is the core of the Measure → Coach → Prevent approach.
Built on real IP
Motion Vitals is built by a PT-backed team on patented core tech (US 10,820,836) plus patent-pending load modeling. We measure biomechanics at the foot; we don't overclaim — the Vitals Score is a tool to guide training, not a medical diagnosis.