MAP Movement Pattern Evaluation Center, a Taiwan startup dedicated to personal movement analysis and evaluation, is planning to roll out a series of education videos to help athletes and the general publiuc correct their personal movements and postures to achieve the effect of preventive medicine, according to Lukas Tung, the center's chief operating officer (COO).
As movement pattern deviations vary from person to person, individualized evaluation and diagnostic contents are needed, Tung said, adding that MAP's evaluation and diagnostic contents include surgery records, chronic disease history, current sorts of pains, living styles, specific tests, standard tests, generalized conclusions, proposed treatment direction, key images, and evaluation result analysis, all needed to generate proper prescription for therapeutic exercise by patients.
Following six months of efforts, the MAP technology team has integrated and further expanded traditional biomechanical technologies. Tung said his center is building databases concerning ankles, knees and hip joints while also updating its image analysis technologies, with a Beta analysis system set to be released by the end of 2018.
Tung continued that such technologies are usually available at only national movement analysis centers and biomechanical laboratories to serve professional athletes, but the services are also needed by ordinary people to avoid deviational movements or to correct deviations.
Now with the Move & Treat Physical Therapy Center as the technology demonstration base, Tung noted that his center hopes to effectively promote standardized and systemized movement evaluation technologies to the general public in the future.
Lukas Tung, COO at MAP Movement Pattern Evaluation Center
Photo: Mark Tsai, Digitimes, October 2018