Strength
Strength is the ability to overcome a burden — an object, an opponent or your own body — once or more times. Maximal voluntary contraction, explosive contraction, contraction endurance and twitch response.
Measurement for biomechanics, motor control and rehabilitation medicine.
Wise Coach is an original concept aimed at supporting routine diagnostics and research work in biomechanics, motor control and behaviour, rehabilitation medicine and related fields. It was built, delivered and supported by Wise Technologies, and the measurement engineering behind it remains one of our strongest references.
From the sensor on the subject to the report on the researcher's desk, each part was designed to work with the next.
Software for each single measurement module, driving the protocol, the acquisition and the immediate readout for that specific test.
Custom-made braces and sensors for the measurement stations, built for the test being run rather than adapted from generic laboratory hardware.
The application server that gathers every module's results into goal-directed statistics and reports, so a session becomes comparable data rather than a pile of files.
Each module covers one motor ability, with its own protocol, its own instrumentation and its own reporting.
Strength is the ability to overcome a burden — an object, an opponent or your own body — once or more times. Maximal voluntary contraction, explosive contraction, contraction endurance and twitch response.
Flexibility is the range of movement a person can perform with a limb or with the body, measured as joint range under defined and repeatable conditions.
The ability to adapt your movement to unexpected conditions. Tracking tasks for force and for angle put the subject against a moving target and record how closely they follow it.
Agility is the ability to accelerate, decelerate and change direction as rapidly as possible, combining balance, coordination, speed and power. Squat jump, counter-movement jump, drop jump, jumps with additional weights, repetitive hopping and stamping.
Balance is the ability to keep the centre of gravity within the base of support with minimal postural sway. Body sway, dynamic balance tests and step analysis.
Multi-channel electromyography acquires, measures and evaluates inter-muscular coordination patterns, including activation level across several muscles at once.
Three instruments developed alongside the measurement modules, each solving a problem the standard laboratory kit did not.
A system for the assessment of dynamic body balance, with its own instrumented board and the software that reads it.
A complex system of mechanical sensors built into a Concept2 rowing ergometer, turning a training machine into a measurement station.
Multi-purpose questionnaire software, so the subjective side of a study is collected and scored in the same system as the measured side.
The full descriptions as they were published with the product. Large PDF files.
Wise Coach is a legacy product, but the measurement engineering behind it is still ours and we are glad to talk about it — whether you are looking at the original system or at something new built on the same experience.
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