Who would have known that Rocky 4 would end up predicting the future? We all know that a great 80’s movie is defined by its montages. And Rocky’s training in Rocky 4 basically sums up how athletes used to train – In Siberia, pulling sleighs; helping lift fallen horse carts; cutting down trees and carrying logs. On the other hand, athletes now train like Captain Ivan Drago, using top of the line technology to measure performance and to induce pique athletic performance.
Kinduct Technologies is a company that is at the forefront of the wellness, health and performance software industry. Founded in 2010 by Dr. Travis McDonough, Kevin Rimmer and David Anderson, Kinduct has quickly established itself as a leader in health and performance management, organization and data analysis. With their 4 platforms: Kinduct Performance, Kinduct Health, Kinduct Clinic, and Kinduct Fitness, they have developed an “ecosystem” of statistics and data that helps sports organizations, doctors, patients, personal trainers and clients.
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With Kinduct Performance, trainers and sports organizations can collect and centralize any type of data from their athletes ranging from fitness testing and assessment results, wearables and performance tracking data, daily injury and wellness scores. This allows them to get a full picture of their athletes’ ability, status and potential.
A very small example of this technology at work is assessing the level of fatigue an NBA player experiences during a game. Since Dr. Naismith cut a hole in the bottom of the fruit basket, coaches have relied on the eye test or coaches intuition to gauge a player’s level of fatigue. Now with the aide of Kinduct’s performance software, coaches can make more accurate decisions on when to rest their players. Not only does this provide the obvious benefit of better rested athletes but can also help prevent injury.
On a larger scale, Kinduct Technologies processes, consolidates and then analyzes the vast amount of data compiled from STATS LLC’s innovative SportsVU tracking technology used by the NBA. “Kinduct is the only company that presents the information gathered in a simple, dissectable format.” says Kinduct CEO Dr. Travis McDonough.
The software also helps athletes and trainers understand how the body performs during games, after games, during practice and the offseason. Players can receive customized reports on injury prevention, nutrition programs and strength and conditioning. This information can be delivered to the athlete and to the right people in any sports organization through connected devices like smart phones, tablets and laptops.
The Kinduct fitness software platform works on the same premise as Kinduct Performance. Trainers use various methods to assess and survey results from training logs, journals, trainer notes and wearable devices. The software allows trainers to go even deeper and measure a client’s:
- body composition
- activity
- training sessions
- sleep
- nutrition
- mood
The Kinduct Health & Clinic software allows for doctors and patients to be on the same page. Doctors can allow patients to view any type of information on connected devices 24/7. Patients can receive a plethora of information including but not limited to:
- Instruction and information through videos and 3-D animations
- FAQs, journals, surveys and other valuable tools to help them understand their condition
- Personalized care programs and their role in the process.
- Messages and notifications
- Tracked health habit
Kinduct Health & Clinic allows for doctors and care professional to make the best use of their people and to increase patient engagement in self-reporting and the patient recovery process. This helps to reduce patient stress and anxiety and also allows for a deeper understanding of medical procedures.
This type of integration is available throughout all of Kinduct’s software platforms. Kinduct’s software is pulling information from over 500 sources including records, wearable devices, GPS systems and camera systems. It creates a large “Ecosystem” of data in one location allowing for deeper analysis.
“Kinduct creates a framework of understanding between the athletes and trainers and between patients and doctors.” McDonough tells us.
Like most innovative companies, Kinduct Technologies is not resting on their laurels. Last week, Kinduct Technologies is announcing a major partnership with STATS, the leading sports technology, data and content company. Not only that, In July 2015, Kinduct Technologies is looking to launch its software for corporations to measure and monitor workplace stress, mental health and wellness. In the near future Kinduct wants to launch its software at the grassroots level of all sports. McDonough sees a bright future for Kinduct by being “ a part of the largest Canadian sports initiative to monitor, measure and manage children in sports as young as 12 years old.” Imagine children as young as 12 being tracked, measured and assessed all the way to their collegiate or professional careers. This paves the way for safer sports, injury prevention and the early detection of major health problems within children participating in sports.
Kinduct software, described by McDonough as the “isolated, melting nervous system for the consumer and the athlete,” has had such a strong showing with clients that McDonough believes “companies will soon realize that it will cost them a lot more if they do not use the software.”
Kinduct Technologies is one of many companies worldwide that is showing the world what the future of health, performance, data analysis and management will look like. If McDonough and his co-founders have their way, their softwares will become ingrained in everyday life, whether it’s monitoring an athlete’s off season training and nutrition, conducting stress level surveys in the workplace or detecting a heart irregularity in young athletes.