FORCE DECKS (VALD)
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ForceDecks (VALD): Advanced Force Plate System for Performance, Rehab, and Strength
ForceDecks is a portable, dual-plate force measurement system that brings research-grade biomechanics into everyday rehab and performance settings. Its lightweight design and intuitive software make it easy to assess strength, power, balance, and symmetry with precision.
For physical therapy, ForceDecks delivers clear, objective data that helps identify hidden deficits, monitor recovery progress, and guide more tailored treatment plans — giving therapists the insight they need to support safer, more confident return-to-activity decisions.
Who Can Benefit from ForceDecks (VALD)?
- Patients Recovering From Injury: Individuals healing from orthopedic injuries — such as ACL tears, ankle sprains, post-operative repairs, or shoulder and back injuries — benefit from objective measurements that track strength and balance as they progress through rehab.
- Post-Surgical Patients: ForceDecks helps therapists monitor recovery milestones after surgeries like joint replacements, ligament reconstructions, tendon repairs, and spinal procedures, ensuring patients regain strength and stability safely.
- Individuals With Balance or Stability Issues: Older adults, neurological patients, or anyone with balance impairments can be evaluated for sway, control, and symmetry, allowing therapists to build targeted balance-training programs.
- Athletes Returning to Sport: Athletes rehabbing from injuries can use ForceDecks to measure asymmetries, power deficits, and readiness to return to sport—providing objective criteria instead of relying solely on subjective measures.
- Patients With Chronic Pain or Movement Dysfunction: Those dealing with chronic knee, hip, or back pain can gain insight into compensations or imbalances that contribute to ongoing discomfort, helping therapists tailor corrective exercise plans.
- Individuals Focused on Preventative Care: Patients seeking to prevent injury—such as active adults, weekend athletes, or aging individuals looking to maintain mobility—can use force-plate testing to spot early deficits before they become bigger issues.
- Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs: Laborers, first responders, and industrial workers benefit from assessments that reveal strength imbalances and movement inefficiencies, helping reduce workplace injury risks.
Benefits of ForceDecks(VALD)
- Provides objective data for strength, power, and balance assessments
- Detects asymmetries and compensations not visible to the eye
- Tracks patient progress with measurable, repeatable results
- Supports safer return-to-activity decisions with evidence-based insights
- Enhances technique correction through real-time visual feedback
- Helps personalize rehab plans based on individual deficits
- Improves patient engagement by showing clear, easy-to-understand metrics
- Offers consistent testing across sessions to measure true improvements
ForceDecks gives physical therapists a powerful, data-driven way to assess movement, monitor recovery, and improve technique. By capturing precise measurements of strength, balance, and symmetry, it helps create more personalized treatment plans while providing patients with clear evidence of their progress. The result is faster, safer, and more effective rehabilitation.
ForceDecks (VALD) Techniques
- Measures How Evenly Each Leg Works: Shows right–left asymmetries during movements like squats, jumps, or sit-to-stand, revealing compensations in technique.
- Tracks Weight Distribution in Real Time: Identifies if a patient is shifting, leaning, or relying too heavily on one side — common issues after injury or surgery.
- Analyzes Movement Timing: Breaks down how quickly force is produced and absorbed, helping therapists correct slow reaction times, delayed push-offs, or poor landing mechanics.
- Shows Center of Pressure (Balance Control): Visualizes how steady or unstable a patient is throughout a movement, allowing precise adjustments to stance, foot position, or posture.
- Detects Compensations You Can’t See With the Eye: Reveals subtle deviations in force output that indicate protective patterns, weakness, or poor form.
- Provides Clear Visual Feedback: Graphs and charts allow patients to see what they’re doing wrong, speeding up learning and improving technique retention.
- Monitors Technique Across Multiple Reps: Captures every repetition so therapists can analyze consistency, fatigue-related breakdowns, and movement quality over time.
- Helps Validate Proper Form During Progressions: Ensures patients maintain good technique when adding load, speed, or complexity — keeping rehab safe and effective.
- Offers Objective Data for Coaching Cues: Therapists can give more precise feedback (e.g., “push evenly through both legs,” “control the landing,” “brace before lifting”), backed by measurable data.
- Tracks Improvements in Movement Efficiency: Shows whether technique changes are actually improving force production, balance, or symmetry, rather than guessing.
ForceDeck® Frequently Asked Questions
ForceDecks provide objective measurements that help therapists track progress, identify remaining deficits, and make informed decisions about advancing treatment or returning patients to activity safely.
No. Testing is non-invasive and consists of movements such as standing, balancing, jumping, or performing functional tasks while standing on the force plates.
Most ForceDecks assessments can be completed in approximately 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the testing protocol and your individual goals.
No. While commonly used in sports medicine, ForceDecks also help evaluate patients recovering from orthopedic injuries, joint replacements, balance impairments, and other movement-related conditions.
ForceDecks are beneficial for athletes returning from injury, patients recovering from orthopedic surgery, active adults, and anyone seeking objective movement analysis to improve rehabilitation or performance.
VALD ForceDecks are computerized force plates that measure strength, power, balance, movement symmetry, and athletic performance using objective biomechanical data.