Interactive Metronome

Interactive Metronome
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How IM Works

The Interactive Metronome treatment program was developed to directly improve the processing abilities that affect motor planning and sequencing, which are central to human activity – from the coordinated movements needed to walk or climb stairs, to the order of words in a sentence to provide meaning.

IM improves those human capacities by using innovative neurosensory and neuromotor exercises developed to improve the brain’s inherent ability to repair or remodel itself through a process called neuroplasticity.

The IM program provides a structured, goal-oriented process that challenges the patient to synchronize a range of hand and foot exercises to a precise computer-generated reference tone heard through headphones. The patient attempts to match the rhythmic beat with repetitive motor actions.

A patented audio or audio and visual guidance system provides immediate feedback measured in milliseconds, and a score is provided.

Over the course of the treatment, patients learn to:

Focus and attend for longer periods of time

Increase physical endurance and stamina

Filter out internal and external distractions

Improve ability to monitor mental and physical actions as they are occurring

Progressively improve performance

Interactive Metronome (IM) is a cutting-edge neurological assessment and treatment tool, an audiology-based program for motor timing and sequencing that uses hand clapping and maintaining a beat. IM has therapeutic applications for a wide variety of learning and developmental disorders in children and adults.

Patients that have attentional problems typically fall into a category of brain symptoms related to their ability to sequence and bind information.

I.M. helps to train motor sequencing by increasing the ability of the motor system to sequence.

IM is essentially a program that uses visual, auditory and motor cues to get the brain in time and rhythm by having the clap to a specific metronome beat.

Who Interactive Metronome Helps

IM was developed in the early 1990s and first used to help children with learning and developmental disorders, such as:

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Cerebral Palsy
Sensory Integration Disorder
Non-verbal Learning Disorder
ADD/ADHD

Through years of clinical research and the efforts of innovative therapists, IM was soon being implemented as part of a therapy program with older patients who also exhibited the same deficits as pediatric patients, such as:

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA)
Balance Disorders
Limb Amputation
Parkinson’s Disease