The Indiana Pacers’ sports performance staff runs its teams through a screening about once a month to investigate each player’s risk of a knee injury. The assessment centers on the LESS Test (Landing Error Scoring System) in which a player starts on a 12-inch box, jumps down with two feet, lands and then jumps straight up.
This is all done in front of a Kinect camera powered by Physimax’s markerless motion-capture software platform. One of the Pacers starters performed very poorly on the test and, while he was already undergoing some physical therapy for his knee, the Physimax system detected another issue in the kinetic chain for which there was a swift remedy.