Muscle Monitoring for Rehabilitation, Sports & Medicine

MyoWave – Training/Fitness/Therapy



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Sonostics has developed an intuitive device called MyoWave to assess muscle effort and balance during simple exercises. Using state-of-the-art data collection and analysis MyoWave provides new insight into how targeted exercise and rehabilitation can reduce incidence of injury and improve recovery time.

“Using the Sonostics technology it has allowed me to immediately assess when the quadriceps fire, when the hamstrings fire and how hard they fire.  It gives me information that I was not able to obtain before.”
- Todd Mansfield, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS

See below how MyoWave is applied in a variety of applications to identify muscle imbalance and help guide the practitioner in assessing a targeted course of action.

Also, you will see a former collegiate football player tells his story about a knee problem that caused chronic discomfort and loss of mobility until the information from a MyoWave screening enabled him to dramatically improve his quality of life.

No other technology permits such real-time output and analysis.

 

MyoWave includes a laptop computer with pre-installed software, proprietary sensors, a data acquisition pack and a color printer. The sensors can be affixed to a muscle in a variety of methods, such as elastic wraps and straps or even double-sided adhesive tape.  No skin preparation is required.

MyoWave is ideal for use by physical therapists, chiropractors, orthopedists, athletic trainers and fitness centers.

Here’s How it Works

MyoWave captures muscle vibration as a subject moves, filters out extraneous noise, and focuses instead on the best wavelet packet of sound that Sonostics has found to correlate with muscle effort. Thus, real-time objective measurement can be made of the contributions muscles make in controlling a joint.

Knowledge of this comparison is a key metric for practitioners looking for causes of osteoarthritis, patello-femoral syndrome (PFS), seeking to reduce the risk of ACL tears, or rehabilitating people who are already injured.

Such biofeedback can also be used by individuals to permit strength training without increasing the risk of knee injury. MyoWave has also been useful in helping therapists and trainers determine if athletes are ready to resume active participation in their sport.

In addition to the muscles controlling the knee, MyoWave has been used to assess the erector spinae for back assessment and the tibialis anterior for ankle concerns. VMG is a platform technology that is applicable to a broad spectrum of muscle groups.

INTERVIEWS FROM KNEE SCREENING CLINIC AT SOUTHERN TIER PHYSICAL THERAPY

 

PARENT/ATHLETE INTERVIEW

 

PARENT/ATHLETE INTERVIEW

 

INTERVIEW WITH BRYAN MCGOVERN, BINGHAMTON U.

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