Introduction to Interactive Metronome & Gait Mate: Tools to Improve Cognitive & Motor Function    

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  • Occupational Therapist
  • Occupational Therapy Assistant
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  • Physical Therapy Asst
  • Athletic Trainer
  • Neurologist
  • Licensed Medical, Rehabilitation or Mental Health Professional
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Course Description
The IM Gait Mate is a tool designed to assess and treat an individual’s planning, sequencing, and motor coordination while ambulating. The Gait Mate provides rhythmic auditory stimulation to facilitate improved gait cadence, step length, and walking speed. Guide sounds provide biofeedback to cue the client if they are off the beat. Gait Mate improves motor planning and sequencing by using neuro-sensory and neuro-motor exercises developed to promote neuroplasticity. The purpose of this course is to introduce the benefits of the Interactive Metronome and Gait Mate when treating clients with planning, sequencing, and coordination impairments.
Contact hours are offered pending successful completion of a written exam at the end of the course.
 
Instructor(s) - One of the following:
 

Shelley Thomas, MPT received her physical therapy degree from the Mayo Clinic in 1999 and is currently the Director of Rehabilitation at Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Hospital in Boise, Idaho. She has worked primarily adults with neurological and general medical issues and has embraced incorporating Interactive Metronome and Gait Mate into treatment sessions. She serves as the lead therapist at her facility working with physical, occupational, speech, and recreational therapists to educate them about how to incorporate IM and Gait Mate into their treatments to improve functional outcomes. Shelley has been teaching IM Certification Courses since 2008 and has contributed to the development of the Gait Mate Certification Course.
 
Course Objectives:

Target Audience:
This webinar welcomes PT/PTAs and OT/COTAs. No prior knowledge of Interactive Metronome or IM Gait Mate is required.

Instructional Level:
Introductory

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Review timing structures of the brain involved in mental and interval timing skills. Discuss the importance of mental and interval timing skills to efficiently perform activities of daily living.
  2. Review desired outcomes when using Gait Mate during therapy sessions.
  3. Review a case study highlighting how to incorporate Interactive Metronome and Gait Mate into treatment sessions to improve motor coordination, balance, timing, and gait biomechanics.
*Note: This course covers information that pertains to OTs and COTAs. COTAs must practice IM under the supervision of an OT.

 
Disclosure

The Interactive Metronome, Inc. has developed and patented a licensed technology trademarked as the Interactive Metronome®. (U.S. Patents #4,919,030; #5,529,498; #5,743,744; #6,719,690; other U.S. and foreign patents pending) Interactive Metronome, Inc. is the sole source of the following products: Interactive Metronome® , Gait Mate® and IM Home®. Because there are no other like-kind products available, course offerings will only cover information that pertains to the effective and safe use of the above-named products.

CEU's
Course Meets Requirements for:
  • 1.00 Contact Hours OT/COTA (AOTA) = 0.10 CEUs
PTs & PTAs may submit paperwork to your state board. Check your state for eligibility.
 
Interactive Metronome is an AOTA Approved Provider (#4683). This Introductory course is offered for 1 contact hours/0.10 CEUs(Classification Codes - Domain of OT; OT Process: Intervention). The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA..