Inter Reha, our Japanese distributor is presenting TMG 100 system at the 51st annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (JARM). According to Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Japan has highest life expectancies in the world at 81.25 years of age while more than 40% of the population is over age of 65. That is why physiotherapy plays an important role in Japanese healthcare. As the TMG 100 diagnostic system enables fast and objective long term monitoring of skeletal muscles it can be easily implemented in the daily routine of physiotherapists. Physiotherapists can on the basis of reliable results obtained by TMG 100, precisely monitor the progress on the level of individual muscles and then optimize their rehabilitation program.

We have visited the Italian National Football Team during their preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The purpose of our visit was to provide TMG diagnostics of all players and develop special training routines for the upcoming World Cup.

Our Chinese distributor Lead Sports successfully promoted the TMG 100 System at the 4th Beijing Performance Training Summit. TMG 100 System attracted a lot of interest from leading Chinese S&T experts that attended the Summit, so our network of our clients will expand in China in the upcoming weeks.

We will attend 19th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science that will be held between 2nd and 5th July in Amsterdam. At the stand 44 in the exhibition hall we will present the TMG 100 System along with some others methods and technologies for injury prevention and training optimization that we have developed recently. Apart from that, two of our experts will be presenting the results of their scientific work in the field of biomechanics. The titles of their contributions are following: A new approach to biomechanical analysis of the knee during exercise and a new approach to measuring force transmission and efficiency over the knee joint in a cycling-case study.

The sportscotland institute of sport that was formerly known as the Scottish Institute of Sport is using TMG 100 System to optimize training of members of the Great Britain National Team during their preparations on XX Commonwealth Games that will be held this year in Glasgow.

We have returned from Boston Sports Medicine and Performance Group (BSMPG) 2014 Summer Seminar that was held in Boston. There we had 3 TMG workshops, where attendees could see TMG 100 System in action and learn about all the details of Tensiomyography.

We are all aware of different research phases (proof of concept, development of characteristic model, evaluation of characteristic model and confirmation or rejection of a hypothesis on a larger population) that most research in the field of biomechanics has to undergo. However, in order to conduct quality and successful research, methods and tools with low variability of measured results should be used. Most of the research in the field of biomechanics or more specifically in the field of skeletal muscles status was undertaken by methods and tools that had a rather high rate of variability. That is why the results could be misleading thus taking the research in the wrong direction. Tensiomyography or shorter TMG is a highly objective method of muscle diagnostics with a scientifically proven low variance of 5% that facilitates new areas of research in the field of biomechanics. Furthermore, as measurements result in numerical data, the results are easier to process and analyze.

The primary role of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is to resist anterior subluxation of the tibia. As such it plays an important role in fixating the knee joint and preventing knee instability. As each ACL has it’s own unique characteristics it can be damaged in different ways, diagnostics on individual levels are needed to determine the most appropriate rehabilitation protocols. For diagnosing ACL tears there are very common and reliable but subjective methods, such are anterior drawer and Lachman tests and objective methods like stress arthrometry testing and magnetic resonance imaging. However there aren’t any selective and objective tools available for testing muscle atrophy which is a significant associated condition.

TMG is a noninvasive, selective method for measuring the mechanical contractile properties of skeletal muscles when monitoring, the ACL rehabilitation process prior to and post-surgery, which enables optimization of the rehabilitation process. In the study we have measured patients just before and after ACL reconstruction and demonstrated the sensitivity of the TMG method of monitoring muscle atrophy and hypertrophy during rehabilitation process.

For a full study please follow this link.

The XX Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology that will be held in Rome, Italy from 15 – 18 July 2014 will bring together a multidisciplinary cross section of delegates from basic scientist’s to practicing clinicians specialising in human movement and the neuromuscular system.

Angus Hunter, a senior lecturer from Health and Exercise Sciences Research Group, University of Stirling (UK) and avid TMG user will hold a workshop on TMG, where he will present the basics of the method as well as advanced practical applications.