Timing IS everything!
Interactive Metronome was developed fifteen years ago and is now used in 15,000 clinics, rehabilitation centers and sports-training centers across the world. While most therapy modalities are limited to exercising just one part of the body with resistance training, electrical stimulation or stretching, IM works to change the control center for all human functioning. Is fast, it’s fun and it has years of great results behind its research!
Patients who have poor cognitive processing, slow coordination or balance responses, attention and focus issues, or other brain-based diagnoses highly benefit after completing 12-15 sessions of the IM program. We challenge the patient to synchronize a range of whole body movements to a computer-generated beat that does not change. The patient then must make the tiny changes in movements in order to stay on this beat. Changes happen quickly, using visual and auditory feedback, notifying the patient when they are right on the beat and when they are not.
As the brain’s efficiency and performance improve so do processing speed, word finding, faster thinking, and attention. But because IM improves those neurological functions by moving the body, the patient is constantly in motion. Cognitive gains are also paired with functional improvements in balance, coordination, reaction speed, timing and in gait symmetry.
Visit interactivemetronome.com for research results.
U CAN LEARN has trained thousands of children and adults over the last 12 years! We are your Utah connection. And because we are non-profit, we can often offer this therapy at a much lower rate than the national average, thanks to our dedicated donors who support us each year.
Cogmed - improves working memory and attention and focus
Cogmed is a home-based computer program that is monitored online by the staff at U CAN LEARN. Adults, teens and children train for 35 minutes, 5 days a week, completing auditory and visual memory exercises to help clear the “fog” created by chemotherapy or concussion or TBI. treatment. Patients report positive differences in daily tasks, memory and in speed of learning. All research shows Cogmed to be effective treatment when it comes to working memory and attention struggles. Check out the current research at www.cogmed.com.
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