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Overuse injuries in strength training rarely happen randomly. They happen when a specific joint is loaded beyond its capacity — often because a movement's demand wasn't matched to the athlete's proportions. STATURE quantifies mechanical demand before you prescribe the movement, so you can identify high-risk setups before they become referrals.
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A functional movement screen tells you whether a pattern is present. It doesn't tell you how much mechanical stress that pattern creates for this athlete's specific proportions. A lifter with long femurs and a short torso squatting with conventional program loads may be experiencing significantly higher hip joint moment than load percentages suggest. STATURE makes that visible — so your return-to-sport progressions and exercise prescriptions account for actual load, not assumed load.
Calculate moment arms and mechanical demand at each joint for your patient's specific proportions. Identify which movements create elevated load at the hip, knee, or shoulder relative to population norms.
When a movement creates excessive joint load for a patient's proportions, use the variant optimizer to find alternative setups that preserve training stimulus while reducing stress at the problem joint.
STATURE's movement animation shows joint angles at every phase of the lift for your patient's proportions. Identify where their anatomy requires extreme range of motion that may stress healing tissue.
Compare mechanical demand between an injured patient and their training partners at the same program loads. Quantify whether they were experiencing disproportionate joint stress before the injury occurred.
STATURE uses validated anthropometric ratio tables to derive segment lengths from height and sex, then computes moment arms at each joint in the kinematic chain for a given lift. Moment arm × load gives joint torque, which STATURE expresses as a demand factor relative to average proportions. This allows direct comparison of load experienced by different bodies at the same program weight.
Yes. STATURE can help you quantify whether a patient's proportions create elevated joint load at their target movement, allowing you to set load thresholds based on actual mechanical demand rather than percentage of bodyweight or 1RM alone. This is particularly useful for hip and knee loading in squatting and hinging movements.
Segment lengths derived from population ratio tables carry a standard deviation of approximately 4–6% for most segments. For clinical precision, STATURE supports direct input of measured segment lengths (femur, tibia, torso, upper arm, forearm), which eliminates estimation error entirely.
Yes. The OHP and push-up analyses both compute shoulder joint load, including how arm length and torso dimensions affect moment arms at the glenohumeral joint. Pull-up analysis covers shoulder and elbow loading in the pulling chain.
STATURE models static proportion-based mechanics rather than dynamic motion capture. You can compare the mechanical demand of a patient's previous lift setup versus a modified post-injury setup by changing stance, grip, or bar position in the variant optimizer.
The core assessment and comparison tool is free. STATURE Pro ($49 lifetime) unlocks saved patient profiles, training logs, custom segment inputs for measured proportions, and full build profile analysis. No subscription.
Joint load analysis, exercise alternatives, and proportion-based load comparison for rehab practice.
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