Last Updated on November 22, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We suppose so, with a training tracker, treadtracker, npe runn , foot pods which can be calibrated we have tools which allow to monitor speed and distance of a treadmill accurately. An ECG stress test uses the Bruce protocol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_protocol
With the Bruce protocol the speed of the treadmill increases over a time of about 20 min every 3 minutes. We ajust the speed also manually if we do not have a computerised treadmill.
Furthermore the % grade of the treadmill needs to be ajusted every 3 minutes. We can do that manually as well. If a treadmill like the Newgen medical does not have such a mechanism, we can add one as described here with this instruction:
and this instruction allows to measure the uplift accurately:
to ajust the % grade. The device shown displays the degree of the tilt. But we have to test if these values are correctly.
An ECG stress test treadmill costs new around 14 000 USD, but we can to some experiments for instance with a Newgen medical treadmill when we add the components we mentioned here and a 12 channel ECG device based for instance on OpenBCI.