Since 2006

The movement intelligence
behind the world's best athletes

We start every athlete from one assumption: their potential hasn't been reached. Twenty years of decoding human movement tells us where to find it.

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

Movement Intelligence

Upstream of
what matters

Until P3, the movement of elite athletes had never been studied at scale. We’ve tested athletes on force plates since 2006 and with 3D motion capture since 2012, and tracked what happened next: who got hurt, who stayed healthy, who got better.

That's how we spot problems before they show up. A fitness tracker tells you how hard you worked. We show how your body actually moves, and where it's headed.

6 of 10

P3's knee injury model can identify 6 of the next 10 serious knee injuries in the NBA before they happen.

How we know
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, Dr. Elliott was named the 12th Augustus Thorndike Lecturer at Massachusetts General Hospital, the most prestigious lectureship in American sports medicine. Every previous lecturer has been an orthopedic surgeon; he is the only one recognized for predictive, data-driven performance science. It was a signal that the future of sports medicine lies in prevention, and that P3 is leading it.

See the full record

Work with P3

Offered on a
limited basis

Santa Barbara, California · Atlanta, Georgia