Metronome Therapy

What Is Interactive Metronome?

 The 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.  This, in turn, strengthens motor skills, including mobility and gross motor function, and many fundamental cognitive capacities such as planning, organizing, and language.

How Does Interactive Metronome Work?

 The IM program 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 or audio and visual guidance system provides immediate feedback.  The difference between the patient’s performance and the computer generated beat is measured in milliseconds.  The score provided indicates timing accuracy.

Who Can Benefit from Metronome Therapy?

Individuals with, motor planning and sequencing problems, speech and language delays, motor and sensory disorders, learning disabilities, and various cognitive and physical deficits may benefit from the IM program.  Adult and pediatric patients who have benefited from IM include those with:

• Mood Regulation
• OCD
• ADD/ADHD
• Attention and Concentration
• Language Processing
• Behavior (Agression and Impulsivity)
• Motor Control and Coordination
• Academic Performance
• Sensory Integration Disorder
• Asperger Syndrome
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Cerebral Palsy
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA)
• Balance Disorders
• Limb Amputation
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
• Decline in Function
• Developmental Disorders