KINEMATICS WITH KELLY • INDEPENDENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH • RECOVERY • READINESS
Built through practice. Strengthened through science. Designed for community.
The research-development program of Kinematics with Kelly, LLC. Its questions began in sports and orthopedic physical therapy practice and are being developed into measurement methods, education and community implementation that can be independently reviewed.
Status: research development in progress • no active studies • not recruiting participants
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THE SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS
Questions that came from practice
Measurement reliability. How consistent are force-plate measures such as the countermovement jump and isometric mid-thigh pull across repeated sessions, and what is the smallest change that exceeds measurement error?
Interpretation. How consistently do clinicians, coaches and students interpret the same movement data, and does structured education change that?
Movement literacy. Can people learn to understand objective movement information without treating a number as a diagnosis?
Clinician and workforce education. How can measurement-informed teaching help allied-health and athletics professionals communicate across disciplines?
Community implementation. What helps movement education stay accessible and continue beyond an isolated clinical episode?
These are research-development questions, not completed studies. No findings are reported on this page.
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RESEARCH DOMAINS
Five domains, one framework
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RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT LEAD
Dr. Kelly Neumann, PT, DPT, CIDN
Doctor of Physical Therapy (2011) and Bachelor of Health Science (2009), Maryville University of Saint Louis. Founder of Kinematics with Kelly, LLC (2024) and The Recovery Room.
Clinical expertise. Illinois-licensed physical therapist; sports and orthopedic outpatient practice, 2012–2024; integrative dry needling.
Education and curriculum. Clinical instructor for doctoral physical therapy students; author of the Science to Sport measurement-literacy curriculum and the #Mission2Move education programs.
Research-methods preparation. Force-time measurement protocol design, reliability and measurement-error planning, and research data-governance planning. In development and subject to independent review.
Research-development products. Documented research questions, measurement protocol drafts, a governance framework and professional grant-proposal authorship.
Scholarly work. Killing Kate: The Other Side of the Clipboard (published narrative nonfiction). No peer-reviewed research publications to date.
Proposed formal research. A reliability study of force-plate measures is proposed. It is not approved, funded or recruiting.
Research development at Kinematics with Kelly is practice-originated and independently organized. It is not a university program, and no institutional affiliation, endorsement or funding is implied.
Kinematics with Kelly, LLC — Clinical Physical Therapy
Clinical Physical Therapy: licensed physical therapist evaluation and individualized care governed by Illinois scope of practice, informed consent, documentation, privacy, professional judgment, appropriate referral and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Data: Clinical records remain in the clinical record system under applicable privacy law, accessible only to authorized treating clinicians and staff with patient authorization as required.
Sponsors: Clinical firewall: sponsors have no access to clinical referrals, booking information, treatment details or any patient information, and no influence on clinical recommendations.
CLINICAL CARE
#Mission2Move — Education + Community Implementation
Education + Community Implementation: public movement education, community workshops and classes, movement-literacy programs, professional development and community translation.
Data: Wix/Fit hold only the minimum operational information required for education and program delivery, such as registration, attendance, entitlement, completion and approved learning/engagement metrics.
Sponsors: Sponsors may fund access (for example, scholarship seats) and receive only contractually approved aggregate, non-identifiable program summaries.
EDUCATION + COMMUNITY
Kinematics with Kelly, LLC — Independent Research Practice (The Recovery Room: Research • Recovery • Readiness)
Independent Research Practice: scientific question development; protocol development; measurement science; reliability and reproducibility planning; quantitative-method development; implementation research; health-professions education research; workforce research; community translation; collaborative study development; grant development; scientific dissemination.
Data: Research datasets and identifiers are maintained only in protocol-authorized research systems with role-based access, minimum-necessary data, appropriate coding/pseudonymization, approved retention, and applicable IRB/privacy controls.
Sponsors: Sponsors may receive only contractually approved aggregate, non-identifiable program or study outputs.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC GOVERNANCE
Four activities, kept separate
Clinical care is licensed physical therapy under Illinois scope of practice and informed consent. Education builds movement literacy. Program evaluation and quality improvement use aggregate, non-identifiable information. Human-subjects research happens only under a finalized protocol, an appropriate IRB determination and research-specific consent.
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RESEARCH COLLABORATION
Bring a question, a method or a setting
We welcome research faculty, clinicians, educators, statisticians and community organizations interested in a research question, methods review or collaboration. The inquiry form asks only for professional contact details and your question. Please do not include personal health information.
Submit a Research Collaboration Inquiry
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CURRENT RESEARCH STATUS
Documented research development, not completed research
Research questions, measurement methods, governance and data-management plans are documented and in development.
There is no IRB-approved study, no active recruitment and no funded research project at this time.
No peer-reviewed results are reported. Any future study begins only after protocol finalization, independent review and an appropriate IRB determination.
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Movement is Medicine. #Mission2Move
Clinical and Scientific Inquiry
STAGE 01 OF 08 • PROFESSIONAL-HISTORY EVIDENCE
Sports and orthopedic practice generated sustained questions about movement quality, neuromuscular control, recovery, athlete development, communication, and the limits of episodic rehabilitation.
Theme: Movement science, neuromuscular control, rehabilitation, athlete development
Evidence: Professional-history evidence; expanding contemporaneous documentation. External verification required.
2013–2015
Community Health and Movement Infrastructure Gap
STAGE 04 OF 08 • PROFESSIONAL-HISTORY EVIDENCE
The public-health crisis disrupted movement-support systems and expanded the research question from individual rehabilitation toward community movement literacy, continuity, access, education, social connection, and efficient use of professional resources.
Theme: Community health, movement literacy, implementation, access
Evidence: Professional-history milestone; supporting evidence being assembled. External verification required.
2020
Objective Measurement and Data Infrastructure
STAGE 07 OF 08 • RESEARCH-DEVELOPMENT
The research platform expanded objective measurement workflows, structured data intake, force-time variables, longitudinal concepts, movement-literacy education, and research-readiness infrastructure.
Theme: VALD/DorsaVi, objective measurement, data architecture, longitudinal learning
Evidence: Documented research-development and technology-integration record
2025
Movement Technology and Prevention Model
STAGE 02 OF 08 • EXTERNAL VERIFICATION REQUIRED
Professional work expanded toward a technology-supported, neurologically informed movement and prevention model integrating movement assessment, neuromuscular re-education, functional testing, athlete education, and proactive risk-reduction concepts.
Theme: Technology-supported movement assessment, neuromuscular development, prevention
Evidence: Candidate-reported milestone; contemporaneous corroboration being assembled. External verification required.
2016
Systems-Level Education and Community Development
STAGE 05 OF 08 • PROFESSIONAL-HISTORY EVIDENCE
Professional and educational development increasingly focused on scalable movement literacy, technology-supported learning, resilience, community access, and continuity beyond isolated clinical encounters. This period is not presented as a federally funded or formally approved research study.
Theme: Community access, technology-enhanced learning and continuity of movement education
Evidence: Professional-history period; contemporaneous source evidence being reconciled. External verification required.
2021–2023
Federal and Scholarly Research Maturation
STAGE 08 OF 08 • RESEARCH-DEVELOPMENT
The program matured through professional grant authorship, federal-grant research architecture, statistical and reproducibility planning, data-governance and research data-system planning, workforce education, community implementation, female-baseball research development, publication, and formal independent research-practice preparation.
Theme: Grant authorship, statistics, governance, research education, community implementation
Evidence: Documented multi-source research-development record
2026
Refinement Through Practice and Education
STAGE 03 OF 08 • PROFESSIONAL-HISTORY EVIDENCE
Clinical and community teaching further developed movement-science questions through biomechanics, functional testing, student mentorship, athletic education, and interprofessional communication. These activities represent professional practice and education, not a claim of approved human-subjects research.
Theme: Clinical education, student mentorship, movement literacy and interdisciplinary communication
Evidence: Professional-history period; source documentation under review. External verification required.
2017–2019
Independent Research Program Formalization
STAGE 06 OF 08 • DOCUMENTED
Kinematics with Kelly and The Recovery Room became the organizational platform for formalizing a long-standing movement-science research agenda into an independent translational research-development program.
Theme: Translational movement research and independent practice infrastructure
Evidence: Documented organizational and program-development record
2024
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE
Eight stages, 2013–2026
Read left to right. Each stage keeps the evidence classification recorded in our research portfolio: professional history describes practice and teaching, not formal research; documented and research development stages are supported by dated records; external verification required means corroboration is still being assembled.
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METHODS AND MEASUREMENT
A reliability-first measurement framework
Before a change in a number is interpreted, the error around that number has to be known. These methods are in preparation; none has been applied in a research study.
Force-time variables: countermovement jump peak force and net impulse; isometric mid-thigh pull peak force; rate of force development (0–100 ms, 0–200 ms) only where data-quality conditions are met; interlimb symmetry index.
Measurement error: intraclass correlation (ICC 2,1, absolute agreement), coefficient of variation, standard error of measurement and minimal detectable change (MDC95).
Reproducibility: locked endpoint dictionary, version-controlled analysis plan and independent statistical review before any study begins.
Interpretation boundary: asymmetry is not judged against arbitrary thresholds. Measurement informs conversation. It does not diagnose.
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THE RESEARCH EVIDENCE PATHWAY
From practice to proposed evaluation
1. Professional questions. Sports, orthopedic and teaching practice (2013–2023) raised the questions above.
2. Methods development. Measurement protocols, reliability planning and governance are documented (2024–2026).
3. Educational implementation. The methods are taught, not tested, through published programs: Science to Sport: VALD Measurement Literacy, the workshop catalog, community events and The Recovery Room on Wheels.
4. Proposed scientific evaluation. Not yet conducted. It requires a finalized protocol, independent scientific and statistical review, an IRB determination and research-specific consent.
Participation in education programs is not research participation, and program records are not research data.