• Green light given for balance testing research at James Cook University

    By Published On: 13/11/2024
    Researchers Professor Anthony Leicht, Dr Carol Flavell and Dr Moira Smith from JCU will use the Balance Mat in their research

    An esteemed team of allied health researchers from the College of Healthcare Sciences at JCU in Townsville have now received ethical approval for a body of research involving the Balance Mat. The team comprises two researchers from the discipline of ...

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  • A day to remember for Balance Metrix

    By Published On: 11/11/2024

    Another healthcare inventor and I have teamed up! Today is a very important day for Balance Metrix. It's the launch date of our StandSure - BalanceMore rehabilitation kit. And it also happens to be Remembrance Day. The eleventh day of ...

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  • Balance Mat at Dee Why Beach for World Clinical Exercise Physiology Day 2024

    By Published On: 10/10/2024
    Dr Sophie Scamps MP takes great interest in Abishek Shrestha's work testing balance for World CEP Day at Dee Why Beach.

    Team Balance had a wonderful time at Dee Why Beach on Monday 23 September 2024 supporting Danny Miller and her crew of exercise physiologists on World Clinical Exercise Physiology Day. Margaret Metz and I travelled down to Sydney from Port ...

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  • Machine learning research aims to facilitate earlier falls intervention

    By Published On: 10/09/2024
    Abishek Shrestha with Balance Mat screens & calibration robot at University of Canberra Robotics Lab

    Having the ability to predict falls is the holy grail for balance researchers. A machine learning project being undertaken by Balance Mat Pty Ltd electronics engineer Abishek Shrestha is attempting to achieve that lofty goal. Abishek Shrestha will use ...

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  • Meeting old friends and new at ESSA Research to Practice event

    By Published On: 18/05/2024

    I was humbled by the support my Balance Mat invention and I received at the Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) Research to Practice event held in Sydney from 2 to 4 May 2024. Research On the "Research" side of ...

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  • Keeping the Balance Mat dream (& me) alive

    By Published On: 30/04/2024
    Balance Mat inventor Ian Bergman was flown to Sydney by air ambulance

    This long-form story is intended to dispel any confusion about the respective roles of Balance Metrix and Balance Mat Pty Ltd personnel. In light of an announcement on LinkedIn by my fellow board member George Tulloch in April 2024, “After ...

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  • Making a difference for Parkinson’s patients

    By Published On: 24/04/2024

    Barbara Cullinan – a physiotherapist with 23 years of experience – is Balance Metrix’s newest innovation partner. Barbs is using the Neurometric Balance Mat to help people living with Parkinson’s disease at The Park – Parkinson’s Wellness Centre on Queensland's ...

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  • Research into balance and sensory health

    By Published On: 08/03/2024
    The Neurometric Balance Mat is measuring the balance ability of elderly Singaporeans at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). Pictured is Mr Leow Zhun Hong (study senior clinical research coordinator).

    A team of leading ophthalmology researchers who have been using the Neurometric Balance Mat in Singapore for the past nine months have provided me with this brief research update. Known as the PopulatION HEalth and Age-Related SEnsory Decline PRofilE (PIONEER) study, the ...

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  • Launch of the Balance Metrix Pioneers Program

    By Published On: 23/11/2023
    Hassan Qureshi from Holistic Exercise Physiology and Ian Bergman take a moment to talk Balance Mat

    Balance Metrix is currently on the lookout for sports and vestibular professionals in the exercise physiology and physiotherapy disciplines who can help us establish the Balance Mat in allied health practice. To support that goal we are currently offering suitable ...

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  • Important milestone in Balance Mat history

    By Published On: 20/07/2023
    Dr Isaac Selva Raj with prototype Balance Metrix system at RMIT Sep 2019

    An important milestone in Balance Mat history has been reached with validation of the Balance Mat by a Perth university researcher. Dr Isaac Selva Raj (pictured) is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Science at Edith Cowan University School of ...

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