The BALUO Application Centre, one of the most advanced diagnostic and performance centers in Central Europe, will be officially opened on the 11th of November 2016. We are proud that tensiomyography will have an important role in their well-equipped laboratory as it will be used on high priority researches.

Mark Stephenson will present tensiomyography as one of the tools which helps to determine optimal training loads and recovery interventions during his session titled Sustaining Peak Performance, at the Sports Biometrics Conference, which will be held in San Francisco, November 13-15, 2016. Apart from being the human performance program manager at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Mark consults with various colleges and professional teams form the NFL, MLB, and NBA and has over 27 years of experience in rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, and sports science. You can find more information about the conference here.

In order to provide the best possible training and support for tensiomyography users in Korea, we have started a collaboration with a renowned local distributor HOSPI Co., Ltd. We believe that our cooperation will lead to an increased presence of our products on the Korean market and satisfaction of our clients there.

We have extended our distribution network to Ireland in order to make our products more accessible for their research, physiotherapy and elite sports institutions. As our partner Redback Biotek Limited has over 30 years of experience in this segment, we believe that our cooperation will result in many satisfied users of our products.

Jian Chen and a group of fellow Chinese researchers have recently published a scientific publication on tensiomyography with the title Effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on hamstring function after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The research focuses on ACL in relation to sports injuries. You can find more details on following link.

The recently established Slovenian research institution is strongly focused on the field of physiotherapy. Recently, we have agreed to establish a close research collaboration in this field aimed towards the development of new applications of tensiomyography in physiotherapy.

Acibadem Sports, the leading sport medicine centre in Turkey and a FIFA medical centre of excellence became our new technology partner. We will join our efforts in the field of the development of new applications in sport science.

In the world of science, we are all eager to pursue a scientific impact. However, we regularly forget about the essence of the impact in a larger scope and rather focus on citation counts. The Nature (2013) even examined the impact in a special issue named impact: The Search for the Science That Matters. They conclude with the sentence that “Every government and organization that funds research wants to support science that makes a difference — by opening up new academic vistas, stimulating innovation, influencing public policies or directly improving people’s lives. But separating the best from the rest has never been harder«.
A discussion about an impact can further be developed into a question about the basic requirements for making a good impact. We believe that one of the basic requirements is a good ratio between innovation and acceptance. Here, we rely on a very simple historic example as an argument. In 1615, Galileo Galilei who is known today as “the father of observational astronomy” and “the father of modern physics” claimed that Earth is not the center of the Universe but the Sun is, and that Earth is circling around the Sun. [Wikipedia, 2016]. We know today that there was nothing wrong with his »breakthrough innovation«, however, in his time, there was a lack of acceptance. Galileo Galilei was forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Nevertheless, today his findings are perceived as a common sense.
We believe that a good impact can only be achieved by a good ratio between innovation and acceptance. Tensiomyography, with over 100 scientific publications, can help scientists in this perspective. We believe that 100 articles from different fields is already enough to reach Acceptance, but still low enough to allow a higher level of Innovation. Most of the other methodologies you can use to assess data are either very new or already well established. Due to this reason, we believe Tensiomyography offers the best ratio between innovation and acceptance, which helps scientists to reach a higher impact.

Martínez-Cabrera and Núñez-Sánchez (2016) have assessed the acute effect of a foam roller (FR) in the rectus femoris muscle by using TMG. Seventeen male professional soccer players (age 21.4 ± 3.8 years, height 180.5 ± 7.7 cm, and mass 73.6 ± 10.7 kg) had performed 4 sets with the duration of 15s using the foam roller (FR) on the dominant leg with a 2-minute rest at 30 beats per minute. TMG measurements were performed during the rest after the second and fourth sets for both the dominant and non-dominant leg (control). The TMG parameters analyzed the included stiffness (Dm), and contraction time (Tc). Substantial differences were not found between the legs during rest. For the non-dominant leg, substantial differences in Dm were found after the second and the fourth sets. For the dominant leg, substantial differences in Dm were not observed after the FR was applied. No differences in Tc were found for any of the measurements. Our results suggest that the use of a foam roller in slowly executed small sets maintains the muscle stiffness and the contraction time of the RF.

The aim of the case report written by Calvo et al. (2016) was to quantify the effects of dry needling (DNHS technique) on the contractile properties of spastic muscles in an individual who had suffered a stroke. The DNHS technique was applied to a 50-year-old male 2.5 years after having suffered a stroke, who had a complaint of spasticity. The treated muscles were biceps brachii, triceps brachii, rectus femoris, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, medial gastrocnemius, and lateral gastrocnemius. Tensiomyography was used to assess maximal displacement (Dm) of the treated muscles. The usefulness of tensiomyography for detecting changes in patients with spasticity correlated with clinical measures in this field requires further research to establish the reliability of the different parameters provided by the equipment. You can find the complete article here.