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Rakhshani Institute
Performance Durability
Rakhshani Institute of Applied Performance & Recovery Research
Durability is the Next Frontier of Human Performance and Longevity.
The home of Durability Science — the study of what allows the human body to hold under stress and athletic load, and why it breaks down.
Durability precedes performance.
What is Durability Science?
Durability Science is the study of the biological systems that govern tissue health, neurovascular function, inflammatory signaling, and the body's capacity for structural self-repair. It does not replace medicine.
It addresses what medicine, sports science, and the full spectrum of therapeutic disciplines have collectively left unresolved—the durability of the biological architecture that governs tissue recovery and self-healing.
When durability holds, stress drives adaptation. When it declines, the same stress leads to instability and breakdown.
Originated by Vic Rakhshani through four decades of daily applied practice.
Vic Rakhshani | Founder
Vic Rakhshani is the founder of the Rakhshani Institute and the originator of Durability Science.
A former elite football athlete, Rakhshani was First Team Freshman All-American at San Jose State, he transferred to USC, where he started all three years and won two Rose Bowl championships and a National Championship.
He is the first athlete in sports history to have an offensive position created and named after him: the V-Back, designed for him by head coach John Robinson in 1978 and later adopted league-wide in the NFL as the H-Back.
In 1983, three days after committing to play with his former coach, John Robinson, the new head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, to bring the V-Back into the NFL, a cervical spinal cord injury ended his playing career and opened the question that has defined his work since:
Why do athletes break down, and why does the body so often fail to heal?
Over four decades of daily applied practice, he has worked with thousands of elite athletes at every level — World Series MVPs, Olympic gold medalists, first-round draft picks, professional organizations, and Division I athletic programs — along with former athletes and developing juniors.
Institute Research Core Propositions
Strength and Durability are biological expressions.
The biological systems that sustain movement, recovery, and adaptation must be structurally intact before performance recovery or optimization are possible or sustainable.
Athletes are the primary model for human aging.
No population compresses the biological timeline of stress, breakdown, and systemic disease more visibly than elite athletes.
What sport reveals in years, aging reveals in decades. The patterns are identical.
Translational Innovation
Research from the Institute informs applied systems that translate durability science into real-world performance and recovery environments.
AgeLab
An innovation platform for advancing durability and regenerative science for optimizing tissue, joint, balance, and movement recovery for senior health and all longevity markets.
AthleteID™
An elite high-performance durability system designed for athletes and active lifestyles to evaluate and recover the biological systems that govern structural durability, force integration, and recovery capacity in athletes.
Together these platforms serve as applied laboratories for translating Institute research into practical models for athletic performance development, injury prevention, pain correction, and tissue recovery.
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