IsoForge
Biofeedback training with IsoForge
Training against a live force target is a different task from testing. The contractions are submaximal and repeated, the patient is watching the trace rather than being coached through one maximal effort, and what you record afterwards answers a different question. These articles cover target selection, mode choice, dosing across a rehab block, and the line between a training summary and an assessment.
Choosing a classic IsoForge game mode
The four classic IsoForge modes (Hold Steady, Make Waves, Take Flight, Rapid Fire) are still available and are still the most direct way to run a single, isolated force-tracking task. This covers what each one probes, when to pick it over an Arcade game, and why the published evidence treats them as distinct rather than interchangeable.
Choosing an IsoForge Arcade game
The IsoForge Arcade has four games (Ember Drift, Forge Runner, Spark Pulse, Cinder Updraft). Each one asks for a different shape of force over time, reports a different outcome, and adapts its own difficulty to keep the patient in a productive success band. This covers what each game trains, which assessment deficit points to which game, and what the adaptive difficulty costs you.
Dosing IsoForge sessions across a rehab block
Frequency, set count, set duration, and progression rules for an IsoForge training block. A practical starting framework rather than a prescriptive protocol, because the right dose is patient-specific and the published evidence on isometric biofeedback training is too sparse to support a one-size-fits-all recipe.
Reading IsoForge training summaries
An IsoForge session saves a training summary, not the full clinical metric suite. The two surfaces are kept separate deliberately because they answer different questions. Assessment metrics tell you where the patient is. Training summaries tell you how the training is going. This walks through what each summary contains, what it does and doesn't replace, and how to use the two together across a rehab block.
Setting submaximal targets from a recent MVIC
How to pick the target force for IsoForge submaximal work, why the percent-of-MVIC framing matters, and what target ranges make sense at different points in a rehab block. The platform can auto-populate the target from the patient's most recent assessment; the choice of percentage is still yours.