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I have not seen this yet published anywhere in the literature.

Laser levels. If you already have one for home use, then you're ahead of the curve, I think, because they're immensely useful for home leveling tasks. More to the point of training, they are immensely useful for direct visual feedback of anthropometric and positional asymmetries.

I'm in a strength block. It's not my first, but earlier in my training career, I put together that a laser level is useful for measuring asymmetry. Not just standing, but in different positions for your body.

Essentially all movement begins with the hips. So use a laser level to measure yourself standing straight in front of a mirror with the laser pointed at the top of your hips and observe if one side is higher than the other.

Most people will have an imbalance of a few millimeters. Correcting this through orthotic means (e.g. wearing a precisely measured shim to balance your pelvis in one shoe) I am reasonably sure spares the joints in your knee and hip and prevents muscle and postural weirdness from imbalanced forces during compound lifts.

I bought a laser level on sale for $30 and they are available used a lot. How much are knee replacements?

Enjoy your lifting!