The Quick Board

Criteria-based return to sport, not timeframe-based. Most criteria lists include hop test symmetry, quadriceps strength ratios, and pain scores. Three good columns. Still one short.

Jiménez-Martínez et al. (2025, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living) followed ACLR athletes through completed rehabilitation programs, measuring cognition preoperatively, postoperatively, and at the end of rehab. On Multiple Object Tracking, athletes improved early in recovery, then improvement stalled. At discharge, they still showed deficits compared to healthy controls. The gap never closed.

Getting quads firing is the right focus early. Isokinetic testing confirms the muscle is there. Force testing confirms symmetry. But open-skill sport asks for more than isolated output. It asks the athlete to track multiple players, read a defense, and process spatial cues while moving. That capacity remained impaired at the completion of their rehabilitation programs.

That is the cognitive column most criteria lists are missing, and it is what Quick Board measures. Reaction time, visuomotor response accuracy, and bilateral asymmetry. Go/No-Go, Array, and Stroop tasks load inhibition, discrimination, cognitive flexibility, and decision-making, the same demands that open-skill sport places on a returning athlete.

The clip below takes it a step further. With Companion, the athlete reacts with hands and feet at the same time, upper and lower extremities working together, the way sport actually demands.

Criteria-based clearance is the right direction. The criteria list is not complete without the cognitive column.

What cognitive criteria are you currently using for return to sport?

The patient is watching the iPad. Not her feet.

That is not incidental to the exercise. It is the whole mechanism.

Davis Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab shared a video of an older adult performing the Stagger Step on Quick Board. Eyes on the screen throughout. External focus during a task most clinicians run without it.

The stagger step is a bilateral coordination drill. Alternating foot placement, both sides working in sequence, under full cognitive load. Attention stays on the screen. Balance and proprioception emerge as outputs.

When focus goes outward, the body organizes movement. She is focused on the iPad, not managing her feet, which increases likelihood of transfer to other tasks outside of the clinic.

Why? Because it is how the body works and the appropriate pathways are activated.

Baseline. Train. Retest. One number tracks the whole arc.

The QuickBoard Agility Rating produces a 0-to-10,000 composite score from four 10-second exercises.

Run it on day one. The system identifies the weakest dimension and recommends a specific workout to target that gap. Train. Retest. Compare.

Billable under CPT 97750. The auto-generated PDF includes Description and Purpose for billing documentation.

Customers use the Agility Rating for pre-season baselines, tracking rehab progress, and return-to-sport clearance with objective data.

Validation study coming soon shows strong correlation to agility field tests and force plate metrics.

Are you tracking cognitive-motor progress through rehab, or just physical milestones?