Interactive Metronome
Introduction
Interactive Metronome (IM) is a brain-based rehabilitation assessment and training program developed to directly improve the processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning and sequencing. The device can strengthen motor skills, including mobility and gross motor function, and improve many fundamental cognitive capacities such as planning, organizing and language.
Features
Interactive Metronome provides a structured, goal-oriented training process that challenges the patient to precisely
match a
computer-generated beat. Participants are instructed to synchronize various hand and foot exercises to a
reference tone heard through headphones.
The patient attempts to match the rhythmic beat with repetitive motor actions such as tapping his/her toes on a floor sensor mat or hand clapping while wearing an IM glove with palm trigger. A patented audio and visual guidance system provides immediate feedback. The difference between the patient's performance and the computer-generated beat is measured in milliseconds and a score is provided.
Applications
Individuals with motor planning and sequencing problems, speech and language delays, motor and sensory disorders, learning disabilities and various cognitive and physical difficulties may benefit from the IM program. Adult and pediatric patients who have benefited from IM include those with:
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Amputation
- Cerebral Vascular Disorder
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Balance disorders
- Parkinson's disease
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Developmental disorders
- Functional decline
Contact Us
Interactive Metronome Therapy is offered at HealthSouth hospitals nationwide. Click here to request more information or to find a HealthSouth facility in your area that offers Interactive Metronome.