In April 2024 Balance Mat Pty Ltd board member George Tulloch made an announcement on LinkedIn, saying: “After a fulfilling journey as CEO of Balance Mat, I’m thrilled that Ian Bergman is ready to retake the helm …” The following news story provides some background. As part of the company’s business model, the board of...Read More
Churches of Christ Care in Queensland is set to demonstrate the value of the Balance Mat. This follows a meeting between Balance Mat’s General Manager Ian Bergman and Churches of Christ Care’s Allied Health Team Leader/Physiotherapist Craig Wilson in October 2017 at the LASA National Congress on the Gold Coast. Mr Wilson was keen to...Read More
Federal Member for Lyne Dr David Gillespie has provided the Balance Mat with an exciting showcase opportunity inside Australian Parliament House, Canberra. Watch the video At a health policy forum on 14 February 2018, Dr Gillespie encouraged his colleagues to test their balance on the Balance Mat, which was displayed prominently during the event. As former...Read More
Canberra aged care provider Goodwin has successfully used the Balance Mat to test the balance of 37 residents at Ainslie. Goodwin is a community-based not-for-profit organisation providing Canberra and regional communities with independent living villages, in-home care and residential aged care facilities at four locations: Ainslie, Crace, Farrer and Monash. Balance Mat General Manager Ian...Read More
Balance Mat’s Sylvia Tulloch and Ian Bergman were delighted to accept an invitation to be part of the National Questacon Invention Convention on 17 January 2018. Ms Tulloch and Ms Bergman attended a “networking night” as mentors to 25 high school students from across Australia with an interest in innovation. The young people travelled to...Read More
The Balance Mat is assisting some of Canberra’s older Chinese community members to create harmony in health, body and mind. Based on the Chinese cultural value of harmony or “chi,” the Harmony Club is a 12-week program of meaningful activities for Chinese seniors focusing on health, “reablement” and positive ageing. Starting on 31 October 2017,...Read More
Balance Mat General Manager Ian Bergman met many potential clients at the Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA) exhibition on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. Billed as the “largest aged services networking event in the southern hemisphere,” the LASA national congress provided a forum for industry leaders, managers and practitioners to come together, learn, celebrate, network...Read More
The Balance Mat is forming an integral part of two pilot programs to be run in South Australia. With funding from Health SA, the Council on the Ageing SA (COTA SA) plans to conduct two ‘Strength for Life 50+’ programs. On 28 September, COTA SA Manager Strength for Life Jeanette Richards took delivery of two...Read More
The Balance Mat business has been awarded a $30,000 grant to develop a data management system. A project to run for nine months to 31 March 2018 will be undertaken to address the current Balance Mat limitation of requiring healthcare professionals to record data manually. Under an ACT Government’s Innovation Connect grant, a data management...Read More
PSI has entered a partnership with the University of Canberra (UC) Faculty of Health to test the Balance Mat against other methods of balance measurement. Associate Professor Jamie Gaida and Assistant Professor Wayne Spratford will lead a study to document the reproducibility of measurements obtained from the PSI balance mat against existing methods of balance measurement. These comprise force platforms, motion analysis and...Read More
