BTS for Medicine
Hospitals, care centers, and rehabilitation clinics use BTS movement-analysis systems to assess the best care for movement dysfunctions and determine the most effective rehabilitation strategy. This enables the individual medical practitioner to obtain a detailed quantitative analysis of the patient’s biomechanics and neuromuscular mechanics in a quick, accurate, and non-invasive manner. BTS movement-analysis systems today help more than 10,000 patients annually in their medical treatment. The biomechanical assessment of the patient’s remaining motor skills and posture aids the medical practitioner in the decision-making process, pointing to the most suitable treatment choice, optimizing as best as possible the patient’s remaining motor skills, and, as a result, improving his quality of life. BTS solutions are used in orthopedic, neurological, physiatric, and occupational-medicine centers: While gait analysis is the most widely used and recognized application, spine-morphology assessment, postural equilibrium analysis, and upper-limb reaching capacity are examinations that as well have become a part of everyday clinical routine. Today BTS offers a comprehensive solution for the entire rehabilitation processes that includes both therapeutic systems as well as those for the assessment of movement function:
BTS for Sports
BTS systems are used by numerous sports-medicine organizations with the specific goal of maximizing athlete performance, preventing injuries, and improving the effectiveness of post-trauma rehabilitation.
BTS solutions include augmented reality systems, wireless EMG analysis, and high-performance kinematics to support sports at all levels.
BTS systems provide accurate analysis of gait, running, and jumping, as well as all other kinds of athletic motions, in terms of electromyography, kinematics, or kinetics. All these variables can be synchronized and integrated into a single, comprehensive, multi-factor analysis.
Monitoring the athlete’s biomechanical condition makes it possible to:
Hospitals, care centers, and rehabilitation clinics use BTS movement-analysis systems to assess the best care for movement dysfunctions and determine the most effective rehabilitation strategy. This enables the individual medical practitioner to obtain a detailed quantitative analysis of the patient’s biomechanics and neuromuscular mechanics in a quick, accurate, and non-invasive manner. BTS movement-analysis systems today help more than 10,000 patients annually in their medical treatment. The biomechanical assessment of the patient’s remaining motor skills and posture aids the medical practitioner in the decision-making process, pointing to the most suitable treatment choice, optimizing as best as possible the patient’s remaining motor skills, and, as a result, improving his quality of life. BTS solutions are used in orthopedic, neurological, physiatric, and occupational-medicine centers: While gait analysis is the most widely used and recognized application, spine-morphology assessment, postural equilibrium analysis, and upper-limb reaching capacity are examinations that as well have become a part of everyday clinical routine. Today BTS offers a comprehensive solution for the entire rehabilitation processes that includes both therapeutic systems as well as those for the assessment of movement function:
- robotic assistance for upper- and lower-limb rehabilitation and for bed bound patients
- virtual reality using computer graphics and interactive environments, which motivates patients to participate in rehabilitation activities
- kinematics, dynamics, integrated surface electromyography, and comprehensive specialized analysis for motor disorders: pre-established templates for gait assessment, grasping, tapping, hand to mouth, neck mobility, etc.
- biosignal analysis (for example, skin impedance, variable heart rate, temperature, SaO2, respiratory rate) for therapeutic biofeedback and assessment.
BTS for Sports
BTS systems are used by numerous sports-medicine organizations with the specific goal of maximizing athlete performance, preventing injuries, and improving the effectiveness of post-trauma rehabilitation.
BTS solutions include augmented reality systems, wireless EMG analysis, and high-performance kinematics to support sports at all levels.
BTS systems provide accurate analysis of gait, running, and jumping, as well as all other kinds of athletic motions, in terms of electromyography, kinematics, or kinetics. All these variables can be synchronized and integrated into a single, comprehensive, multi-factor analysis.
Monitoring the athlete’s biomechanical condition makes it possible to:
- define new training techniques
- drastically reduce the long-term likelihood of sports injuries
- detect and correct for any gaps in athletic training.
- The system makes a valuable contribution to the treatment of injured athletes. Making it possible to:
- identify the best treatment (rehabilitation, surgery)
- monitor the effects of the applied treatment over time.
- detect when full recovery has been achieved in order to avoid re-injury from resuming the activity prematurely.
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BTS for Research
Comprehensiveness, flexibility of use, calculating power, precision and accuracy are typical features of all BTS solutions.
The most prestigious scientific and university institutes use BTS systems to carry out research in the fields of biomechanics, biometrics, diagnostics, and motor sciences. BTS technology has been used by the leading space programs; BTS systems have been installed at the Spacelab and Mir space stations.
BTS systems are used by NASA, ESA, and CNRS in parabolic flight programs and for a series of experiments for the International Space Station Program; sports federations and professional teams use BTS solutions to improve performance and develop training programs; universities find BTS to be an ideal technological and industrial partner.
Human Applications: development of biomechanical models to study movement in lower and upper limbs, the spine, the head, and other body regions.
Computer analysis of movement finds uses in a wider range of work environments. For example: in clinical research, to assess motor-skill limits after the onset of a pathology or to test the efficiency of aids and orthodics; in the field of music or ergonomics, to assess posture in relation to a particular musical instrument or work station; in aeronautic-space research, to study movement in the absence of gravity, etc.
Animal Applications: determine all the space-time parameters and the movement kinematics
Object Applications: monitoring the movements of robots and human-operated objects
Comprehensiveness, flexibility of use, calculating power, precision and accuracy are typical features of all BTS solutions.
The most prestigious scientific and university institutes use BTS systems to carry out research in the fields of biomechanics, biometrics, diagnostics, and motor sciences. BTS technology has been used by the leading space programs; BTS systems have been installed at the Spacelab and Mir space stations.
BTS systems are used by NASA, ESA, and CNRS in parabolic flight programs and for a series of experiments for the International Space Station Program; sports federations and professional teams use BTS solutions to improve performance and develop training programs; universities find BTS to be an ideal technological and industrial partner.
Human Applications: development of biomechanical models to study movement in lower and upper limbs, the spine, the head, and other body regions.
- joint angles
- linear and angular velocity and acceleration
- determining center of mass
- trajectories described in space
Computer analysis of movement finds uses in a wider range of work environments. For example: in clinical research, to assess motor-skill limits after the onset of a pathology or to test the efficiency of aids and orthodics; in the field of music or ergonomics, to assess posture in relation to a particular musical instrument or work station; in aeronautic-space research, to study movement in the absence of gravity, etc.
Animal Applications: determine all the space-time parameters and the movement kinematics
- Analyis of the gait of a horse
- Assess a horse’s lameness and its implications
- Study motor complications in dogs and salamanders caused by spinal-cord injuries
- assess variations in motor patterns of rats to test the effects of certain drugs
Object Applications: monitoring the movements of robots and human-operated objects
- Mechanical arms
- Work equipment
- Crash test