Since 2006

The standard
in human movement

We don't just measure how athletes move. We know what it means.

20 years · 5,000+ elite athletes · Every major sport

Athlete at the peak of a loaded trap bar jump with a P3 coach observing, black and white

P3 Labs

We see what
the eye can't

Lab-grade motion capture is still rare. Rarer still is twenty years of it, tied to what happened next: who got hurt, who stayed available, who got better.

Wearables count load. We measure the mechanics that drive outcomes.

6 of 10

P3's knee injury risk model can prospectively identify 6 of the next 10 traumatic knee injuries in the NBA.

See the research
Luka Doncic talking with Dr. Marcus Elliott and a P3 coach in the Santa Barbara gym, black and white

Proven at the top

Trusted by
the NBA

70%

of current NBA rosters have been assessed at P3.

P3 built the first force plate and 3D motion capture protocol widely adopted in U.S. pro sports, and brought it to the NBA Draft Combine in 2014. Today every NBA team has a biomechanics lab, and P3 consults on the league-wide program.

Expertise

Built
to train

Sports medicine was built to treat injuries. P3 was built to get ahead of them. We began in 2006 as a training facility, measuring athletes so we could train them with more precision than anyone else. Identifying risk is the start. The work is changing it, so athletes perform better and for longer.

"My body feels better now than it did at 23, and that doesn't happen in pro sports."

Kyle Korver · NBA All-Star, 18-year career

Twenty years in elite sport is where it started. The same intelligence is coming to everyone who moves.

How we work
Cover of Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance by Henry Abbott

The record

Twenty years,
on the record

As covered by

  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The New Yorker
  • ESPN The Magazine
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Fast Company
  • NBA.com

In print

Ballistic by Henry Abbott (2025), the full story of P3. Next Big Idea Club Best Science Book 2025.

  • Upstream by Dan Heath
  • The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter

Recognition

Founded by Dr. Marcus Elliott, a Harvard-trained physician. In 2019 he delivered the 12th Augustus Thorndike Lecture at Massachusetts General Hospital, joining a line of the most influential orthopedic surgeons in sports medicine as the only honoree from outside the specialty.

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Work with P3

Offered on a
limited basis

Santa Barbara, California · Atlanta, Georgia