MET 1: A Clinical Framework for Value Based Assessment
This 3 day course focuses on establishing meaningful outcomes and selecting appropriate measures based on the client’s biopsychosocial presentation profile and dominant pain mechanism. This assessment goes beyond the traditional biomechanical and biomedical examination and includes the assessment of psychological and social aspects related to movement and function.
Objectives
- Apply the International Classification of Function (ICF) to conceptualize a patient’s movement and function.
- Establish measurements in 4 outcome domains to direct treatment interventions
- Perform hand-held dynamometry to establish a patient’s strength profiles
- Perform a biopsychosocial screen to aide in determining a patient’s biopsychosocial presentation profile
- Determine a patient’s biopsychosocial presentation profile
- Determine a patient’s dominant pain mechanism
MET 2: Therapeutic Exercise Design, Dosing, and Delivery
This 3 day course focuses on establishing an intervention framework to achieve optimal outcomes. Special attention is given to the design and dosing of therapeutic exercise using hand-held dynamometry. With a balanced mix of lecture and lab, this course enables clinicians to immediately implement comprehensive and precise interventions to improve a client's movement and function.
Objectives
Perform hand-held dynamometry and the Clinical Fatigue Test (CFT) to establish the appropriate therapeutic exercise dose for neuro-muscular performance
Demonstrate the continuum of care model: biomechanical - biopsychosocial to facilitate therapeutic exercise adherence
Apply biomechanical principles and hand-held dynamometry for appropriate therapeutic exercise design
Perform the Expanded Test of Sensory Integration and Balance and Dual Task Learning to appropriately challenge the sensory-neuro-motor control system
Hand-Held Dynamometry
In this course, we address the research that’s been done to underpin the basis for hand-held dynamometry. Based, in part, on the research that we published in Hand-Held Dynamometry: Guidelines for Daily Clinical Practice, this course will help students obtain the skill set for using a handheld dynamometer as a valid and reliable assessment tool in daily clinical practice. The different instruments, assessment, and utilization modes are examined. With a mix of lecture and extensive lab practice, this course enables clinicians to immediately implement the use of clinical dynamometry.
Objectives
- Define the quantities of mass, force, internal and external torque, torque ratios
- Identify 2 reasons for using handheld dynamometry in addition to manual muscle testing
- Distinguish when to use a break technique vs. a make technique
- Analyze the existing research on validity and reliability of handheld dynamometry
- Identify how to increase reliability with the technique by standardizing the position of the patient, the provider, and the instrument.
- Justify handheld dynamometry as a tool for clinical documentation, demonstrating progress, and patient motivation
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength with movement bias
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength with muscle/muscle group bias
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing the initial resistance for a Clinical Fatigue Test
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength for each of the following: upper quadrant, lower quadrant and spine
MET 1: A Clinical Framework for Value Based Assessment
This 3 day course focuses on establishing meaningful outcomes and selecting appropriate measures based on the client’s biopsychosocial presentation profile and dominant pain mechanism. This assessment goes beyond the traditional biomechanical and biomedical examination and includes the assessment of psychological and social aspects related to movement and function.
Objectives
- Apply the International Classification of Function (ICF) to conceptualize a patient’s movement and function.
- Establish measurements in 4 outcome domains to direct treatment interventions
- Perform hand-held dynamometry to establish a patient’s strength profiles
- Perform a biopsychosocial screen to aide in determining a patient’s biopsychosocial presentation profile
- Determine a patient’s biopsychosocial presentation profile
- Determine a patient’s dominant pain mechanism
MET 2: Therapeutic Exercise Design, Dosing, and Delivery
This 3 day course focuses on establishing an intervention framework to achieve optimal outcomes. Special attention is given to the design and dosing of therapeutic exercise using hand-held dynamometry. With a balanced mix of lecture and lab, this course enables clinicians to immediately implement comprehensive and precise interventions to improve a client's movement and function.
Objectives
Perform hand-held dynamometry and the Clinical Fatigue Test (CFT) to establish the appropriate therapeutic exercise dose for neuro-muscular performance
Demonstrate the continuum of care model: biomechanical - biopsychosocial to facilitate therapeutic exercise adherence
Apply biomechanical principles and hand-held dynamometry for appropriate therapeutic exercise design
Perform the Expanded Test of Sensory Integration and Balance and Dual Task Learning to appropriately challenge the sensory-neuro-motor control system
Hand-Held Dynamometry
In this course, we address the research that’s been done to underpin the basis for hand-held dynamometry. Based, in part, on the research that we published in Hand-Held Dynamometry: Guidelines for Daily Clinical Practice, this course will help students obtain the skill set for using a handheld dynamometer as a valid and reliable assessment tool in daily clinical practice. The different instruments, assessment, and utilization modes are examined. With a mix of lecture and extensive lab practice, this course enables clinicians to immediately implement the use of clinical dynamometry.
Objectives
- Define the quantities of mass, force, internal and external torque, torque ratios
- Identify 2 reasons for using handheld dynamometry in addition to manual muscle testing
- Distinguish when to use a break technique vs. a make technique
- Analyze the existing research on validity and reliability of handheld dynamometry
- Identify how to increase reliability with the technique by standardizing the position of the patient, the provider, and the instrument.
- Justify handheld dynamometry as a tool for clinical documentation, demonstrating progress, and patient motivation
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength with movement bias
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength with muscle/muscle group bias
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing the initial resistance for a Clinical Fatigue Test
- Interpret the results of a handheld dynamometer test assessing strength for each of the following: upper quadrant, lower quadrant and spine
Host a MET Course
If you have more than 10 providers, hosting a course on-site could prove to be a cost-effective way for practitioners to earn continuing education and save valuable time. Advantages include:
Your clinic will have a universal approach to value-based delivery of care
Courses are typically held over the weekend so not to disrupt client care
Courses are scheduled on dates that work best for you
Instructors come to you and provide the courses on-site
All costs associated with the courses are included in our standard fee (travel and lodging, honorarium, course manuals etc.)
Offering the course to therapists from other facilities, will allow you to collect fees to help off-set your costs
Host a MET Course
If you have more than 10 providers, hosting a course on-site could prove to be a cost-effective way for practitioners to earn continuing education and save valuable time. Advantages include:
Your clinic will have a universal approach to value-based delivery of care
Courses are typically held over the weekend so not to disrupt client care
Courses are scheduled on dates that work best for you
Instructors come to you and provide the courses on-site
All costs associated with the courses are included in our standard fee (travel and lodging, honorarium, course manuals etc.)
Offering the course to therapists from other facilities, will allow you to collect fees to help off-set your costs
Course Curriculum
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
MET 1: Essential
MET 2: Advanced
Handheld-Dynamometry: Mastery
Course Curriculum
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
MET 1: Essential
MET 2: Advanced
Handheld-Dynamometry: Mastery
Bring a Friend
Bring a friend or register for more than one course and receive a 10% discount on your registrations. There is no limit to the number of friends you may bring, however some restrictions may apply.
Please contact us for details and other available discounts.
Bring a Friend
Bring a friend or register for more than one course and receive a 10% discount on your registrations. There is no limit to the number of friends you may bring, however some restrictions may apply.
Please contact us for details and other available discounts.
Cancellation Policy
Please make your cancellation in writing. A full refund minus a ten percent administrative fee will be provided for cancellations prior than three weeks of the course date. Cancellations three weeks or less prior to course date result in a:
1) Refund, less a twenty percent administrative fee
OR
2) Voucher for a future course
MET Seminars reserves the right to cancel or change programs at any time for due cause. Cancellations of a course by MET Seminars will result in a full tuition refund. MET Seminars is not responsible for the refund of travel or lodging expenses under any circumstance.
Cancellation Policy
Please make your cancellation in writing. A full refund minus a ten percent administrative fee will be provided for cancellations prior than three weeks of the course date. Cancellations three weeks or less prior to course date result in a:
1) Refund, less a twenty percent administrative fee
OR
2) Voucher for a future course
MET Seminars reserves the right to cancel or change programs at any time for due cause. Cancellations of a course by MET Seminars will result in a full tuition refund. MET Seminars is not responsible for the refund of travel or lodging expenses under any circumstance.
Accreditation
All clinicians who are licensed to provide therapeutic exercises are eligible to attend our courses. CEU’s are available through:
Academic Credit is available through Andrews University
Accreditation
All clinicians who are licensed to provide therapeutic exercises are eligible to attend our courses. CEU’s are available through:
Academic Credit is available through Andrews University