Rose City Physical Therapy
VALD Strength & Performance Testing in Portland, OR
Understand your strength. See your progress.
Are you getting stronger? Is your injured side catching up? Are you ready to get back to the activities you enjoy?
At Rose City Physical Therapy in Portland, Oregon, VALD strength and performance testing gives you measurable insight into your recovery and fitness progress. Our ForceFrame and ForceDecks tools measure muscle strength, balance, and physical performance, giving you and your physical therapist results you can track over time.
Whether you’re recovering from an injury, returning to sports, or working toward a fitness goal, your physical therapist chooses tests that fit your needs. Your results help guide an exercise plan tailored to your rehabilitation or performance goals.
What Does VALD Strength and Performance Testing Measure?
ForceFrame: Muscle Strength Testing
ForceFrame measures isometric muscle strength—how strongly you can push or pull while holding a set position. Depending on your goals, your physical therapist may test muscles around your hips, knees, ankles, shoulders, or elbows. Comparing your right and left sides helps track differences in strength during rehabilitation or training.
ForceDecks: Balance, Jumping, and Landing Assessments
ForceDecks measures the forces you produce against the ground during activities such as balancing, jumping, and landing. These assessments help your physical therapist understand your balance, power, and differences between your legs, providing measurable information about your movement performance.
How Testing Supports Injury Rehabilitation and Return to Sport
Strength and performance testing establishes a starting point and helps you see what changes as you recover or train. As part of your physical therapy care, your results can help you and your therapist:
- See your progress: Measure how your strength and performance change over time.
- Track recovery on your injured side: Compare both sides as you work through rehabilitation.
- Focus your exercise plan: Identify areas that may need more attention.
- Plan your return to sports: Use your results alongside your symptoms, movement, and the demands of your sport.
- Plan your return to physical work: Track recovery alongside other assessments and job-specific testing.
Who Can Benefit from VALD Testing?
You don’t need to be a competitive athlete—or have an injury—to benefit from testing.
VALD testing may be helpful if you’re recovering from an injury or surgery, getting back to a sport, returning to a physically demanding job, or looking to better understand your strength and balance.
Your therapist can help you decide whether testing fits your goals and which tests are appropriate for you.
Understanding Your Strength, Balance, and Performance Results
Your numbers are useful, but they don’t tell the whole story. Your therapist will explain your results and consider them alongside how you feel, how you move, and what you want to do.
A difference between your two sides doesn’t always mean something is wrong. Testing alone also can’t predict or prevent an injury. It’s one tool we use to help guide your care and track your progress.
Train with Purpose. Track Your Return to Sport.
Working back from an injury or toward your next athletic goal? Know where your strength, balance, and power stand—and where to focus next. VALD strength and performance testing at Rose City Physical Therapy in Portland, OR, provides measurable insights to help your physical therapist guide your rehabilitation, training, and return-to-sport plan.
Take the next step toward your sport. Request an appointment today to discuss how VALD testing could support your athletic goals, or call 503-228-1306.
Jeri Finn
My experience at Rose City Physical Therapy has been positive all around. Everyone is incredibly friendly from the front desk to the therapists. My appointments always begin and end on time. Throughout each appointment, I receive personalized attention and helpful explanations about my injury and the exercises I am doing to recover. And, of course, I am happy that I have started to feel improvement so soon.
Piseth Pich
Truly specialists that lead with empathy and always put the patient first, Rose City PT is a phenomenal team. My therapy team has been focused on my healing and function/performance goals and instrumental in my progressive progress. Absolutely recommend to anyone who needs physical therapy and wants a stellar team.