Description: Arsalis is a spin-off of the IoNS of UCL specialized in the measurement of human motor performance and clinical evaluation of rehabilitation.
Arsalis is a spin-off of the Laboratory of physiology and biomechanics of locomotion ( LOCO ) and the Laboratory of rehabilitation and physical medicine ( READ ) of Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Since the early 1980's, these laboratories have developed an expertise in the measurement of human motor performance and in the clinical evaluation of rehabilitation. Arsalis turns this expertise into industrial human performance evaluation systems.
Our expertise is in developing integrated hardware and software instruments for assessing physiological performance. Our know-how includes mechanical design, custom force sensor design, integration of industrial sensors (e.g. force, acceleration, pressure, position, angle, temperature and moisture), printed circuit board design (analog and digital signals, microcontroller signal processing), data acquisition system design (signal sampling and processing) and physiological data interpretation. While our prod
More recently, our university lab has acquired an expertise in Rasch analysis, which is particularly applicable to rehabilitation outcomes. Patient-related attributes, such as pain, intelligence, fatigue, disability, quality of life are generally assessed with questionnaires. These questionnaires report ordinal scores. In order to allow quantitative comparisons, either longitudinally or cross-sectionally, these scores need to be converted into true linear measures expressed on a continuous scale. The Rasch