The APAS, the Ariel Performance Analysis System, the world's most advanced computerized
system for biomechanical analysis and the study of human motion.
The Ariel Performance Analysis System, or APAS, was developed by Dr. Gideon Ariel, founder
of Ariel Life Systems, former Olympic Committee Chairman, NASA Consultant, and world leader
in biomechanical research.
The APAS was instrumental in the development of the lunar and Mars invasion spacesuits,
and the APAS is the same system that has made Dr. Ariel a consultant to some of the
best athletes on the planet.
Among these athletes are Frank Shorter, Gold Medalist in the 1972 Olympics, Hal Order,
former Olympian, Brian Allfield, world champion in the shot put, the U.S. Women's Volleyball
Team, and Mack Wilkins, winner of the Gold Medal in the 1976 Olympics, and world record
holder in the discus.
The same system can be used by you to diagnose and rehabilitate your patients.
We are going to demonstrate here, it's probably the most sophisticated technology was created
to analyze human movement.
The question is, why would you need a sophisticated system like this?
Well, today, in a modern world, whether you are a physical therapist, or whether you are
an insurance person, whether you are a coach, trainer, any place where we need physical
performance or human movement, the question is, how you quantify the results.
What we can do with our system, instead of using two eyes, we are using two commas.
And from there, we can do what the brain does to the human body and actually calculate the
third dimension.
For example, here I have a runner.
This runner actually was running while the pictures were taken, and he was not even aware
that the pictures were taken.
I can do it in a multiple image, so here I have many, many pictures.
As a coach or a trainer or physical therapist want to look on a person from the top, even
though he did not have camera on the top, the computer can calculate the view from the
top so I can go actually to the orient, put the top, and right now I see the same motion
from the top view.
With the human body, you have to know precisely if you want to optimize a baseball player
or a discus tutorial or a runner.
What is the contribution of each segment in the body to the other segments?
If you don't know precisely the speed, you cannot tell what is the efficiency of the
movement.
Our system can derive precisely the speed of every joint in the body.
So, although it knows the position and the displacement, it also can calculate the velocity.
The APAS system is not just a tool for the Olympic athlete.
In your facility, the APAS will provide a clear-cut method for analyzing the injury and recovery
of your patient in their everyday activities.
Activities such as walking can be broken down and quantified so that the therapist can quickly
diagnose and treat the patient with increased success.
Fields such as industrial medicine will open up to the therapist due to the ability of
the APAS to take data directly from a work situation and extract the necessary information
to make all the calculations for the patient's diagnosis.
The APAS, like the Ariel computerized exercise system, was created to provide the user with
the maximum amount of technology and an easy-to-use format.
The APAS is all menu-driven, and no previous knowledge of computers is necessary to watch
and operate the APAS.
Tutorials, descriptions, and menus make operation of the APAS self-explanatory.
Analysis If your work involves measurement, diagnosis,
or improvement of human performance, you can't afford to operate without the corners the
competition is cutting.
Integration The APAS is the only system that can integrate
force platforms, EMG, and kinematic analysis in real-time.
Smoothing The APAS is the only system that gives
the therapist the tools necessary to accurately analyze human movement by making not one algorithm
available, but a whole library.
Kinetic analysis module It can actually calculate the force exerted
by specific body segments.
Adaptability The APAS can work with any speed of video
camera, and the APAS can also work with high-speed film.
Automatic Picture Storage The APAS is the only system that allows
the user to exploit the full potential of motion analysis by imposing the kinetic data
over the actual video of the subject.
Because all data is converted to digital form, the APAS allows the therapist to enlarge
any part of the kinematic figure for closer study.
What we try to show here, for example, to the occupational therapist, how to bring a person
to me and truly back to a maximum performance.
We try to show to the coach how can he understand the event better and how can he take an athlete
and perform with a person at his maximum.
We try to show here that every person is really a gold medalist in his own body, but
in order to find and quantify it, we need this technology and you have to analyze the
movement and try to perfect it.
That's why you need the ecosystem.
The APAS is not just another motion analysis system, but the most sophisticated system
available to study human movement.