Measurements already exist. The continuity often does not.

Healthcare professionals already use tests to measure strength, mobility, balance and physical performance.

But the value of an individual result is limited if measurements are performed differently, documented inconsistently or not repeated when they should be.

Kinegrade is exploring whether a shared workflow could connect these individual assessments into a clearer picture of how a person’s physical function is changing.

From isolated measurements to a repeatable assessment workflow.

The working product concept connects three parts of physical-function assessment that are often separated in practice.

Built around physical-function measures healthcare already understands.

Kinegrade does not depend on inventing a proprietary universal “muscle health score.”

The concept is being explored around existing measures of strength, mobility and functional performance, with the exact assessment library still to be determined through validation.

Grip strength

Structured recording of strength measurements performed with appropriate measurement equipment.

Chair-stand testing

Functional lower-body performance recorded in a consistent assessment workflow.

Gait and mobility

Potential support for measures such as gait speed, walking performance and related mobility assessments.

Other functional measures

The eventual assessment set will depend on which workflows prove most useful during clinical validation.

The important measurement may be the next one.

One of the central hypotheses behind Kinegrade is that physical function is not always reassessed as consistently as intended.

A patient may have a baseline assessment, but whether the same measure is repeated at the appropriate point — and whether the new result can easily be compared with the original one — can depend heavily on the organisation and workflow.

Kinegrade is exploring whether software can make reassessment easier to schedule, perform and review without creating additional administrative work for clinicians.

Some assessments may not need a clinician beside the patient every time.

Another product direction being explored is guided self-assessment using the patient’s smartphone.

For suitable assessments and care pathways, the patient could be guided through a reassessment remotely while the professional retains visibility of the result and determines what happens next.

The goal would not be to replace professional assessment. It would be to investigate where selected follow-up measurements could be collected with less friction while maintaining an appropriate clinical workflow.

See the trajectory, not just today’s result.

The useful question is often not simply “What did this person score?”

It is whether their physical function is improving, remaining stable or declining — and how that change relates to previous assessments.

The Kinegrade concept therefore places repeated measurements and progression at the centre of the product rather than treating every assessment as an isolated event.

The same measurement can be useful at different levels.

One part of the concept we are exploring is how the same underlying physical-function data could serve different users without forcing everyone into the same interface.

The platform we are building toward.

A direction being tested, not a finished product.

Kinegrade currently has working product prototypes that illustrate the intended clinician, patient and organisational workflows.

The purpose of the current stage is not to add more features. It is to determine which problems healthcare professionals and organisations actually care enough about to solve.