UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center Pioneers World’s First Clinical Application of Lumin Fitness for Rehabilitation
Dallas, TX – December 1, 2025 – Lumin Fitness, the leader in responsive, AI-infused training environments, announced a groundbreaking partnership with the UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center in Tyler, Texas. The innovative collaboration brings the immersive training technology of Lumin Fitness into a clinical setting for the first time anywhere in the world.
UT Health East Texas’ physical therapy team is integrating Lumin’s adaptive training platform — including real-time EMG (electromyography) muscle-activation tracking — into patient rehabilitation programs. The result is a data-rich, highly interactive experience that is enhancing patient engagement and helping clinicians improve outcomes.
“Applying our technology to a clinical environment marks a major evolution for Lumin Fitness,” said Omeed Shams, CEO of Lumin Fitness. “Partnering with UT Health East Texas allows us to demonstrate how smart, responsive training can augment therapist time while elevating the quality and consistency of rehab for patients.”
UT Health’s physical therapy team is using Lumin’s multisensory training technology to deliver precision-guided movement sessions that automatically adapt to each patient’s ability. With integrated EMG, clinicians can visualize muscle activation in real time, allowing them to tailor exercises, identify compensation patterns, and quantify improvement with a level of accuracy previously difficult to achieve in traditional outpatient settings.
“Lumin is transforming our clinic,” said Suzanne Castles, a senior physical therapist at UT Health East Texas. “Patients are not only progressing more effectively, they are more motivated. The interactive environment keeps them engaged, and the objective data helps us monitor load, symmetry, and activation in a way that enhances both safety and performance.”
Beyond improving clinical insights, Lumin is also helping increase patient throughput. By guiding patients through individualized programming and providing immediate feedback on movement quality, the platform enables PTs to extend their reach, freeing time for manual therapy and evaluation while maintaining a high standard of care.
Patient response has been overwhelmingly positive, with many reporting that the interactive nature of the sessions makes rehab feel like a dynamic and fun challenge.
Coordinated by Rehab Pro as a distribution partner, the UT Health East Texas project establishes a powerful new model for how technology can elevate the rehabilitation experience, and it marks the beginning of Lumin’s clinical collaborations across sports medicine, orthopedics, and neurological recovery.
About Lumin Fitness:
Lumin Fitness creates the most intelligent, interactive, and individualized fitness experiences in the world. Founded in 2019 by fitness, franchising, and gaming industry veterans, Lumin is redefining what it means to work out. Our proprietary Lumin OS combines AI coaching, gamification, motion tracking, and personalized audio to deliver workouts that are as effective as they are engaging. From our full-service smart studios to our on-demand Lumin Solo stations, every experience is designed to help you sweat smarter, stay motivated, and make progress personal. Learn more at https://lumin.fit/.
About UT Health East Texas
UT Health East Texas provides care to thousands of patients each year through an extensive regional network that includes nine hospitals, more than 90 clinics, the Olympic Plaza Tower, 13 regional rehabilitation facilities, two freestanding emergency centers, regional home health services, an EMS fleet of more than 65 ambulances and four helicopters, and a comprehensive eight-trauma center care network, including the region’s only Level 1 trauma facility.
As a partner with The University of Texas System, UT Health East Texas is uniquely positioned to provide patients with access to leading-edge research and clinical therapies while training and educating the next generation of physicians and other health professionals. The nationally recognized UT System also includes The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, as well as three other major university medical centers located throughout the state
