Built by a clinician, for clinicians

I'm a physical therapist, athletic trainer, and researcher, in practice since 2012. I spent years measuring strength the hard way: a handheld dynamometer, a notepad, and a gut feeling about whether a number meant something or not.

Force plates and isometric dynamometers gave us better signals, but the software around them never kept up. I was exporting raw curves into spreadsheets, writing my own formulas, and second-guessing whether peak torque and limb symmetry were enough to make a return-to-play decision. Knowing these metrics only scratched the surface and gave limited insight. That gap, between a good measurement and a trustworthy interpretation, is where decisions get made about whether an athlete goes back on the field.

So I built the first excel dashboard version of this myself. It was rough, but it worked, and clinicians started using it every day. ForceIQ is the rebuild: the same clinical thinking, rewritten from the ground up to be faster, more rigorous, and honest about the limits of the data it's given.

I still see this the way a clinician sees it. Every decision in the product gets measured against one question: does this help someone make a better, faster call with a patient in front of them?

— Dave Sherman, PT, DPT, Founder

Trained at Boston University and the University of Toledo, with postdoctoral research at Boston University School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Currently at Northeastern University.