Athletes downplay symptoms.
Biology doesn't lie.
TraumaScore is a portable saliva reader that turns a cheek swab into an objective, biomarker-driven recovery data point in 15 minutes. No blood draw. No lab. No guessing.
Working with
How it works
Saliva to score in 15 minutes
Swab
Athlete swabs their cheek. A 10-second saliva sample — no blood draw, no needles, no trained clinician required.
Read
Insert the strip into the handheld reader. It measures the biomarker in the sample and returns a result in 15 minutes — wherever the athlete already is, not in a lab.
Score
Results sent via Bluetooth to the companion app. Track your TraumaScore over time — know when your body is actually recovered.
Why TraumaScore
A biomarker-driven athlete monitoring system
No existing tool combines an objective biomarker, non-invasive collection, and results in minutes. TraumaScore is the first.
Objective Biomarker
A biomarker-driven data point, measured from tissue released into saliva. Biology can't be faked.
Non-Invasive
A simple cheek swab — no blood draw, no needles, no trained phlebotomist. Athletes self-administer in seconds.
Portable
15-minute results from a handheld reader. No lab, no hospital, no appointment.
Recovery Tracking
Serial testing maps your recovery trajectory. See when your body returns to your personal pre-season baseline.
Trainer Dashboard
Athletic trainers manage rosters, track baselines, and document return-to-play decisions with objective data.
No FDA Required
A monitoring device, not a diagnostic one. It does not diagnose, and is not intended to inform a game-time decision. We report data.
The science
A signal your body already reports
Damaged tissue releases measurable markers into the body — and one of them is readable from saliva. That is the signal TraumaScore reads.
TraumaScore is a monitoring system, not a diagnostic. Every workout, every practice, every game moves the number — so you can watch how your body is actually recovering instead of guessing from how it feels. It does not diagnose a concussion, and it is not meant to inform a decision at the moment of injury.
It is readable from a cheek swab, so a measurement takes ten seconds wherever the athlete already is. No blood draw, no needles, no lab — the reasons a test like this normally never gets run.
We are publishing the underlying biomarker research as a white paper once our findings are correlated to the device, rather than summarising it here.
Partners
From the people who need it
There is no objective, sideline-ready tool to assess whether a fighter has fully recovered. Return-to-training decisions rely on how the fighter says they feel — which is inherently unreliable.
Having an easy and affordable test for TBI and trauma would absolutely be useful for us as a combat sports gym.
Fitness and health enthusiasts would find a tissue recovery biomarker like this extremely useful!
Wearables track how you feel.
We measure how you heal.
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