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.

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
• Able to analyze the anaerobic peak performance, especially in highly dynamic movements
• Allows insights into the muscle function, which goes beyond previous standard measurement methods such as ergometry, isokinetic or isometric
• Measures dynamic ground reaction forces 
• Calculates the center of mass related physical parameters including acceleration, velocity, energy, power, jumping height and stiffness or flexibility
• Asymmetries of motion can be detected and quantified which helps for Return-to-play decisions.

Typical fields of application of Leonardo Mechanograophy:

• Diagnostics of muscle function
• Performance diagnostics
• Physiotherapy: Documentation of therapy effects
• Athlete Sports: Performance diagnostics