PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor performance detecting device easily measuring the flexibility and equilibrium sense of persons from children to the elderly and simply measuring the progress degree of functional recovery training.SOLUTION: This motor performance detecting device is provided with an acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration component of a moving body in orthogonal triaxial direction, a magnetic sensor for measuring geomagnetic components of the moving body in the three-directional axes respectively, an attitude measuring means for acquiring the attitude of the moving body using the acceleration component measured by the acceleration sensor and the geomagnetic component measured in the above, an attitude variation computing means for calculating an angle formed by the two attitudes measured by the attitude measuring means as an attitude variation due to rotation of the moving body, and an output means for outputting the attitude variation.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】子供から高齢者までの柔軟性や平衡感覚を簡便に測定でき、機能回復訓練の進捗度を簡便に測定できる運動能力検出装置を提供すること。【解決手段】直交する3軸方向の運動体の加速度成分を測定する加速度センサと、前記3方向の軸において運動体の地磁気成分をそれぞれ測定する磁気センサと、前記加速度センサで測定された加速度成分と前記で測定された地磁気成分とを用いて運動体の姿勢を取得する姿勢計測手段と、前記姿勢計測手段により計測した二つの姿勢の成す角度を運動体の回転による姿勢変化量として計算する姿勢変化量演算手段と、前記姿勢変化量を出力する出力手段とを備える。【選択図】図1