Leonardo Mechanograph

Concept 

The main objective of Leonardo Mechanography is to provide efficient quantification of functional human motion based on physical parameters. Leonardo Mechanography analyses functional everyday movement patterns because results are highly reproducible across a large age group from children to the elderly. Leonardo Mechanography offers essential advantages for clinical use, allowing the simple quantification of peak force, peak power, and left-right differences of movement patterns. It requires no additional complex measurement devices, no time-consuming subject preparation, and is easy to use and results are produced within minutes.

Advantages

This concept offers essential advantages for clinical use: for one it allows the objective quantification of actual maximum forces, maximum power, and left-right differences during physiological movements. But the method is also very easy and very fast to apply in clinical use since no preparation of the subject or complex additional instruments are needed.

Fitness & Pro Sports

The fast and easy to apply measurement method of Leonardo Mechanography allows the efficient use of muscular performance assessment without time-consuming subject preparation. A single test can be performed in 1 minute, a standard assessment in 5 minutes. In addition asymmetries of motion can be detected and quantified which helps for return to play decisions. Also, motion patterns can be optimized according to the measured force curves. The Leonardo Mechanograph is an ideal tool for efficient training control and the documentation of training success.

Contained reference data

• Individual performance (anaerobic peak power, Esslinger Fitness Index, EFI: W/kg body weight normalized to gender and age from 2 to 99 years)
• Individual maximum voluntary force (MVF) per leg (reference data from 2 to 99 years)
• Individual performance during chair rising test (CRT)
• Maximum isometric grip force (MIGF)