(Emergence PT Chief Science Officer, Cooper Boydston, studying a monitor that is depicting in
3D what is happening to the trainer’s muscles while lifting weights in the facility’s performance center | Photo courtesy of Emergence PT)
Emergence PT is a new physical therapy and high-tech training center in Redmond that is unique in the United States.
Founder Sean Roach says, “Emergence PT takes a three-point approach to help its patients achieve and maintain physical recovery and optimize fitness goals.”
Roach and his daughter, Jordyn Roach, opened Emergence PT in Central Oregon in December 2021 having moved from Eugene to plant the new family business in the midst of athletes, runners and strength trainers.
He explains, “Redmond was chosen for its supportive community and the opportunity to bring outstanding practitioners and educators to an area that appreciates our comprehensive approach.”
The facility consists of three primary components. Physical Therapy evaluates and treats musculoskeletal disorders — pain, stiffness and weakness. The Performance Center enables a patient to increase strength, power and fitness with a multitude of top-of-the-line equipment — a full weight gym and 21st Century measuring devices to gauge progress towards individual goals.
The third component — The Data Lab — contains engineering/electronic equipment and devices to measure the movements of individual joints to the communications systems between the brain and muscles.
Roach clarifies: “All of the equipment is real time and can be synchronized for the evaluation of complex tasks such as running. All three components are used for all clients and patients.”
Jordyn Roach, a professional cinematographer, designed the impressive complex. She integrated the hardware of large weights and racks with the spacious performance lab that is equipped with video cameras and display monitors to convey real-time external and internal movement of muscles, bones and tendons as a client lifts or runs.
Her father explains, “From real-time motion-capture powered form and force analysis to strength and endurance measuring machines, we have everything for even Olympic-level athletes.”
Roach singles out Bruce Barrett, Windermere-Redmond commercial real estate professional, for locating the space, utilities and patient access attributes Emergence PT required to launch the PT and training center in Redmond.
Roach and his team of advisors and research consultants subscribe to a core belief. He says, “At Emergence PT we utilize our array of equipment and devices to design rehabilitation and performance programs to meet the need of each individual. It’s technology harnessed to quantify how the body moves in relation to itself and to its environment.”
(Emergence PT founder and physical therapist Sean Roach with a Patient |
Photo courtesy of Emergence PT)
New Redmond PT Center Offers High Tech Solutions
by BRUCE BARRETT — Windermere Commercial Real Estate
& TIM CONLON — Conlon Consult Group
“Between 65 percent and 80 percent of runners annually incur an injury,” according to Emergence PT’s Chief Science Officer Cooper Boydston. He is one of three scientists who launched Project Dasein in 2018 (projectdasein.com) in Eugene, commonly known as the running capital of the world.
Project Dasein, Boydston explains, “Is a beta-staged startup that I call ‘a wearable company.’” He says its goal is to create a consumer product that allows people to visualize the forces experienced in running. Every individual runner has a unique pattern which is related to their running form. Boydston continues,“We are creating a wearable sensor with a phone app and the goal is to help runners reduce the risk of injuries, and improve performance in running.”
Project Dasein’s technology captures the exchange of forces over the course of a run in a series of images called “Force Portraits.” Boydston and his associates are continuing their research for Project Dasein in their new, high-tech Redmond facility by recording runners on a state of the art treadmill and force plates with high-speed video in their unique, 3D motion-capture arena.
