Injuries are the single biggest performance disruptor in team sports. A key player unavailable for a decisive match, a string of soft-tissue injuries disrupting a squad’s cohesion, or a season-ending ACL tear that could have been flagged weeks earlier — these outcomes carry enormous sporting, financial, and human costs. Zone7 is svexa’s AI-powered solution for team sports injury risk assessment and training load planning, designed to keep athletes on the field and performing at their best.
Svexa acquired Zone7 in February 2024. For more information, contact info@svexa.com
greater durability and performance for any team
The Injury Prediction Challenge
Sports injury prediction is a genuinely hard problem. Injuries arise from the complex interaction of training load history, biomechanical risk factors, fatigue, sleep quality, travel stress, previous injury history, and age-related tissue changes — none of which, taken in isolation, is sufficiently predictive. Zone7 addresses this by modeling the multifactorial risk landscape at the individual athlete level, using machine learning trained on large longitudinal datasets of professional athletes.
The scientific basis for load-injury relationships is well established — for example, the acute:chronic workload ratio framework, developed by researchers including Tim Gabbett and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, underpins much thinking to date. Zone7 advances this with the latest performance physiology science and AI capability.
What Zone7 Delivers
Injury Risk Scoring
Every athlete receives a daily, individualized injury risk score that accounts for their recent training load, recovery status, historical injury pattern, and current physiological signals. Coaches and medical staff see colour-coded alerts and trend data, enabling proactive conversations about load modification before risk accumulates to dangerous levels.
Training Load optimization
Zone7 does not just flag risk — it provides actionable load recommendations. The system models the training load envelope within which each athlete can perform at high intensity while keeping injury risk within acceptable bounds. This enables coaches to make data-informed decisions about session intensity, squad rotation, and individual modification plans.
Return-to-Play Support
After injury, Zone7 monitors the athlete’s rehabilitation load and physiological recovery, providing data-driven guidance on return-to-full-training timelines. This reduces the risk of re-injury — one of the most common and costly outcomes in elite sport — by ensuring athletes are genuinely physiologically ready before full competitive return.
Zone7 Service Tiers
- Zone7 Audit Report: A standalone data analysis service providing a retrospective review of your squad’s load and injury patterns, with recommendations for improved load management practices.
- Zone7 Pro App: An ongoing SaaS platform providing real-time injury risk scoring, load planning tools, and squad dashboards for coaching and medical staff.
- Zone7 Elite Service: Fully managed, white-glove implementation including on-site support, bespoke model calibration to your squad’s data, and dedicated svexa analyst time.
Proven at the Highest Level
Zone7 is deployed by professional teams and leagues worldwide in various sports. It has been recognized as a leading sports technology innovation, with multiple nominations including the Social Football Summit Awards. Read how a Zone7 case study was featured in Soccerscene highlighting its potential to minimize injuries in football leagues.
- Soccer – Major national leagues, UEFA Champions League, Europa League
- American Football – working closely with teams in the NFL and NCAA
- Basketball – enabling improved uptime and performance in the NBA
- Women’s Soccer – FA Super League and similar national leagues
- Military – improve health and readiness of service members by forecasting MSK injury risk and optimizing deployment availability
- Custom Research – we conduct projects for sports leagues and leading industry organizations that aim to get more from their performance data
Learn More
Explore Zone7’s capabilities in depth at zone7.ai, or discover how Zone7 integrates with the broader svexa IRMA platform for a complete performance intelligence solution. For team sports performance directors and medical staff, Zone7 represents a meaningful advance on traditional load monitoring approaches — combining the intuition of experienced practitioners with the processing power of modern AI.
Discover more about Zone7’s approach to injury prevention and view Zone7’s case studies, or Contact Us to discuss how we could help your team.
