Strength, symmetry, and hop tests clear an athlete in a quiet room. The Agility Rating scores reaction under cognitive load, across the whole roster, in minutes. Re-test on demand to see who's slipping mid-season.
Both matter. Many programs add QuickBoard to their existing protocol, not instead of it.
These tests measure what the body produces on demand, with full attention, in a quiet room.
These tests measure how the nervous system controls movement when the athlete can't fully predict what comes next.
A composite score from 0 to 10,000, built from four scored exercises on the sensor board. The assessment runs in under two minutes and auto-generates a PDF report per athlete. Re-test on demand to track change through the season.
Run the full team through in a single session. The score breaks into five dimensions, so you see which one is moving for each athlete, not just a single number with no explanation. The Symmetry Summary compares left and right and names the deficit side.
One caution on reading symmetry: the better-performing side is labeled 100%. That means better, not recovered. Both sides can still be below where the athlete needs to be.
The Agility Rating adds the reactive layer to an existing RTS battery. It does not replace strength, hop, or force plate testing, and it is not a clearance decision on its own.
It shows what a self-paced battery cannot: how the athlete reacts, decides, and holds symmetry under unpredictable demand. The weakest dimension also flags where to focus before clearing them back to competition.
QuickBoard Companion syncs up to three additional iPads or iPhones to the sensor board session, each running one or more reaction stimuli.
Reaction exercises
Feet react on the board while hands react on the synced devices, at the same time.
Speed-focused exercises
Feet drive the board while hands react to stimuli on the companions.
Fully automated
The protocol runs on its own, so the clinician is free to work with other patients while it runs.
One unified report
Companion reaction times save alongside the sensor board results, no separate system to reconcile.
That is what makes evidence-based dual-task training practical here. Done by hand, it is labor-intensive and the scoring is subjective.
A growing body of RTS research argues standard testing misses this. Hop tests, strength symmetry, and limb-symmetry batteries are single-task: the athlete's full attention is on the movement. Real injuries rarely happen that way. Grooms et al. (JOSPT, 2023) recommend adding a cognitive task to hop testing. Dual-task performance can flag reinjury risk that single-task tests miss. Chaaban et al. (2023) make the same case. Most ACL injuries happen while an athlete is thinking and moving at once. RTS testing should measure the same thing.
ACL and athletic-population studies make the case: clearing a symmetry battery has not been shown to predict who reinjures, and reaction time tracks in-season fatigue that vertical jump misses. All citations below are ACL and athletic population only, with framing notes for each.
Return-to-sport criteria after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction fail to identify the risk of second anterior cruciate ligament injury. Journal of Athletic Training.
Athletes who passed every return-to-sport criterion reinjured at rates no lower than athletes who failed them (Paterno et al., Journal of Athletic Training 2022). Clearing the symmetry battery has not been shown to identify who reinjures, which is the gap a cognitive-motor measure is meant to fill.
Quadriceps strength symmetry and reinjury risk. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
More symmetric quadriceps strength before return is associated with lower reinjury risk (Grindem et al., BJSM 2016). It is the one symmetry metric with prognostic weight, so symmetry testing is not useless. It is incomplete: quad strength matters, hop and hamstring symmetry have not shown the same predictive value.
Reaction time and self-reported stress in Division I women's soccer players. Master's thesis, University of Louisville. Not a peer-reviewed journal article.
Seventeen Division I women's soccer players were tested weekly across a 12-week competitive season, with no control group. Slower reaction times went along with more self-reported stress symptoms. Over the season, reaction times got faster, and stress symptoms fell.
The Quick Board is a game-changer for us. By tracking baseline data, we know if an athlete is trending in the right direction AND if they need more attention in certain areas. We use this for concussion, knee, ankle, hip, core, and shoulder rehab. One of the best pieces of technology to assist in quantifying return to play readiness.
I have been using the Quick Board for a couple of years now and have not only seen great results, but I have seen patient/athlete cooperation and compliance increase dramatically. Our clinic applies Quick Board for stability and return to function, including returning to weight-bearing symmetry. The Quick Board allows patients to perform and re-educate the nervous system while providing feedback with scores and errors. Overall, the Quick Board makes training athletes and rehabbing patients exciting, competitive, and fun.
One system that spans the full athletic calendar.
Baseline every athlete in minutes with the Agility Rating. The assessment runs automatically and generates a five-dimension PDF report per athlete. No manual data entry.
Re-test on demand. Flag reaction-time drops against each athlete's baseline and intervene early. The Agility Rating tracks five sub-scores so you see which dimension is changing.
Add the reactive layer to your existing RTS protocol. In independent research, ACL patients gained less on QuickBoard reaction tests than on hop tests (Chmielewski et al., IJSPT 2024). Now you can test both.
The ACL progressions are already built. You run them, you do not design them.
Resources organized by how you use it.
Pre-built clinical protocol library. Automated session delivery. PDF progress reports for every patient.
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Agility Rating baselines across a full roster. Automated protocol delivery. Reaction time tracking through the competitive season.
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Force plates measure mechanical output. QuickBoard tests cognitive-motor integration under reactive load. The two answer different clinical questions.
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Not on its own. In independent research from TRIA Orthopedic Center, QuickBoard was the reaction test for ACL patients. Patients who met the hop symmetry standard did not score better on the reaction tests (Chmielewski et al., IJSPT 2024). Hop and reaction results did not move together. Physical readiness and reactive readiness are separate clinical questions, so test both.
QuickBoard is recommended technology for neurocognitive and neuromuscular rehabilitation. It appears in leading clinical guidance on neurocognitive and neuromuscular rehabilitation as a cognitive-motor assessment and training tool. The full peer-reviewed citation lives on the research page.
Pre-season: baseline every athlete in minutes with the Agility Rating. In-season: re-test on demand to flag reaction-time drops and intervene early. Return-to-play: add the reactive layer to your existing RTS protocol. The board runs automated sessions with real-time feedback, and reports generate as PDFs without manual data entry.
Yes. Force plates measure how much force a limb produces. Reaction lights time a touch. QuickBoard measures reaction time, per-leg contact time, and symmetry at full body weight, against cues the athlete cannot predict. Many programs run it next to the tools they already own. See it side by side with force plates and with reaction lights.
The Agility Rating is a composite score from 0 to 10,000 generated by QuickBoard. It measures five dimensions: Explosiveness, Reaction, Accuracy, Movement Efficiency, and Symmetry. The assessment runs in under two minutes and auto-generates a PDF report with a five-dimension radar chart and Symmetry Summary.
A QuickBoard rep walks your team through the clinical workflow, runs an Agility Rating session, and shows the auto-generated reports. 15 minutes.
Setup takes one session. Your team runs protocols the same day.
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