NeuroMuscular Testing and Training (“NMT”) Device
- A device made specifically to objectively measure the patient's functional reach in various planes during assessment to get a baseline
- Continue measuring during each treatment session while performing therapeutic activities
- Facility can send objective data to insurance companies & medical providers to indicate progress
- Allows each session to be functionally measureable
- Activate the lower body / trunk muscles for better balance retraining
- It allows the ability to perform balance, visual-motor, visual-perceptual and / or cognition based activities
- Decreases set-up / clean-up time
- Fun and easy to use
- On wheels, Portable
- Collapses for easy storage - when not in use
- Many activities can be performed with the same device while measuring the progress
- Immediate Biofeedback for the patient facilitates intrinsic motivation
- Numbers motivate the patient to perform better each time, thus patients are intrinsically motivated
- Intrinsic motivation leads to better performance and better outcomes
- All of which can be documented in actual numbers - OBJECTIVE DATA
- Set up the device in front of the patient
- Take the initial measurement of the device plane with respect to the patient (angular measurement at the base)
- Adjust the arms to desired angle
- Now set up the extension arms around the patient per your desire, depending on which movements you are trying to see improvement in
- Have the magnetic pieces ready in the cups of the extension arms and/or place the magnetic pieces on the arms at the desired distance (target distance)
- Instruct the patient to:
- Pick up the magnetic pieces from the extension arm cups and place them on the specific color arm
- Take the magnetic piece from the specific color arm and place it in the cup; or
- Visually look for & find the specific piece (Indicating which color arm the magnetic piece is on... Visual scanning)
- Vision Exercises
- Cognitive Activity incorporated within the same treatment session
- Possible to treat two patients on the same device
- Pediatric Size to accommodate people with height limitation
- Prism Health Services has developed an easy to use form which allows you to just plug in the numbers / observations from your session and file the paper away to refer back to future progress
- Document 2 sessions on one single paper
ADULTS
- Unscramble words
- Color Matching
- Visual Scanning
- Target Reaching
- Card Games
- Word Games
- Safety Cards
- Games / sports related cards
- Sentence / Story building &
- Much, much more!
PEDIATRICS
- Alphabets
- Numbers
- Colors / Shapes Matching Games
- Puzzles
- Animals / birds toys
- Action figures
- Cartoon characters
- Textures
- Transport Vehicles &
- Much, much more!