FIGUR8 Names Scott Sexton President

Boston, Massachusetts-based FIGUR8, Inc., a developer of “wearable musculoskeletal technology,” has named Scott Sexton as president.

FIGUR8 was founded by Nan-Wei Gong, Ph.D., its current chief executive officer, and Tiegeng Ren, Ph.D., its current chief technology officer. Its wearable technology evaluates musculoskeletal health using a combination of artificial intelligence software and embedded biosensors.

Sexton joins FIGUR8 from CorVel Corporation, an Irving, California-based provider of “risk, healthcare management, and workers' compensation solutions.” Sexton spent more than 18 years with CorVel, where he most recently served as senior vice president, national sales. In his new role, Sexton will help drive FIGUR8’s product expansion.

OTW spoke with Sexton about his new position and what he is most excited about for his new role: “What’s exciting about FIGUR8 is that it’s bringing precision analytics to standard musculoskeletal clinical assessments. By taking the clinical guesswork out of musculoskeletal health evaluations, FIGUR8 helps drive significant improvements in patient outcomes and lower re-injury rates.”

Sexton continued, “Nan-Wei [Dr. Gong] and Tiegeng [Dr. Ren] have founded a company that has pioneered and is leading the charge in establishing a new standard of care for advancing musculoskeletal health.”

Sexton also discussed what sets FIGUR8 apart from its competitors saying, “The strong demand FIGUR8 has seen from clinicians and customers have underscored the critical need for quantitative evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders. Accurately measuring musculoskeletal performance and recovery has historically been limited to visual and hands-on assessments that provide little to no objective data, or expensive static diagnostic imaging tests for complex cases.”

Sexton continued, “FIGUR8 has developed the first musculoskeletal diagnostics system of its kind that serves as a solution to accurately pinpoint the source and severity of an injury and to have real-time recovery visibility—at the point of care. It's no longer about, ‘What does the average patient with an ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] tear need to recover?’ It's now about ‘What does this patient specifically need in order to fully recover from her ACL tear injury?’”

Sexton went on to share a personal example with OTW, stating, “My daughter recently had an ACL tear. During one of her last physical therapy sessions associated with her ACL tear surgery, she provided her physical therapist with a FIGUR8 assessment. The assessment showed deficit and weakness in her left hamstring. Yet, her ACL tear was in her right leg.”

Sexton continued, “In the absence of the FIGUR8 assessment, her physical therapist would have continued to focus on strength training in the right hamstring, or discontinued therapy, when in fact what she needed was improved strength in her left hamstring. FIGUR8 took the guesswork out of her therapy plan and what was required to help her fully recover.”