Indiana Pacers Extend Partnership With Physimax’s Motion-Capture Tech

The Pacers' Shawn Windle (left) tests a player using Physimax. (Credit: Pacers Sports & Entertainment)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…