» ATM2 Treatment

Congratulations! You have just entered into a whole new world of treatment, exercise, and recovery from many different types of musculoskeletalrelating to or involving the muscles and the skeleton issues related to impaired movements and restrictive exercises.

The ATM (Active Therapeutic Movement) Concept involves enhancing or improving any motion by initially stabilizing and repositioning compromised body areas relative to musculoskeletal issues and then implementing controlled movements or exercises towards the complaint movement or compromised body area under question.

The ATM Concept provides immediate and sustained outcomes for most issues relative to movement impairments. The ATM2 system can immediately change the way muscles move and therein provide immediate, consistent, and long-lasting results for most users.

How It Works

Only after the patient's problem and functional goals are understood and recorded, and one or more possibly related movement impairments are detected, can the intervention commence.

The ATM2 consists of integrated passive and active components.

The passive component immobilizes a body region until the related pain is reduced to zero, and the movement impairment becomes pain free. Once this is achieved, the body region is held in that position, and the active component can begin.

While in the passive holding, the impaired movement is re-evaluated. If it is found to be now pain free, the active component is commenced in the form of active therapeutic movements (ATMs). ATMs are performed in the weight bearing position, and consist of neutral range (close to the midline) short-range active resisted movements towards the previously impaired movements, now pain free because of the passive component. No more than 10 ATM repetitions are expected to provide a significant and immediate improvement.

This uniquely integrated passive-active intervention enables neuromuscular training towards the functional impairment, now in a pain free weight bearing environment.

What it does

ATMs have one intention: to normalize the movement impairment that was chosen by the clinician. Immediate and significant results are expected, otherwise the treatment has to be re-designed or re-considered.

One can say that an ATM comprises of passively stabilizing what needs to be stabilized, while actively mobilizing what needs to be mobilized. We know that the correct passive stabilization was performed when the active component turns pain-free, and we know that the correct active mobilization was performed when an impaired movement is normalized, improving the patient's original complaint.