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Measurement systems
The novel company is the specialist in the development of pressure distribution measurement systems. With more than 30 years of experience our scientists and engineers are setting the benchmark for accuracy and reliability of pressure distribution measurement systems. Moreover, our team plays a leading role in expanding the systems’ fields of application.
nish the patient’s earning ability or make it even necessary to look for a different job. The pliance® manugraphy system from novel is an accurate and reliable system for monitoring the forces of each individual finger and the palm of the hand during gripping. For that purpose, up to 900 calibrated capacitive sensors are applied to each of three handgrip cylinders of different dia-
In addition to the emed® pedography platform (barefoot measurement for foot diagnostics and assessment of foot function), the pedar® in-shoe measuring system (evaluation of local load between foot and shoe) and the pliance® systems (assessing pressure distribution on soft surfaces and 3-D areas) the latest of novel’s innovations is the pliance® manugraphy system. Up to now the functional diagnostics of the hand has been often performed by using a dynamometer which is only able to capture the total force of the hand and fails to show the contribution of each single finger or even its phalanxes. It is exactly this information one needs to evaluate traumatic or degenerative changes of the hand’s anatomy which could dimi-
finger forces Moreover the pliance® audio cueing system with commands for gripping and releasing provides standardized and objective testing without external influences. The pliance® manugraphy system is also an important tool for therapy and rehabilitation because its integrated audio feedback system with user-definable gripping force thresholds allows the patient an autonomous training. Today well-known major corporations as well as prominent research institutions in medicine, biomechanics and industry worldwide rely on systems from novel. The pliance® manugraphy system is the next step to understand what does exactly happen when we touch the world with our hands!
meter. Each sensor is scanned 20 times per sec. which makes not only static but also dynamic measurement possible. By attributing the measured load distribution to the individual fingers, their phalanxes, to the ball of the hand and the thumb, it becomes possible to make a specified assessment of the function of each part of the hand.
For further information please contact: Contact: novel gmbh Ismaninger Strasse 51 81675 Munich, Germany Phone +49 (0) 89 4177 67-0 Fax. +49 (0) 89 4177 67-99 E-Mail: novel@novel.de www.novel.de