Research project: Motor task manager reliability and validity study - Dormant - Dormant
Neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington’s disease affect a person’s mobility. Function of the arm can be assessed by examining movements, such as a reaching task. The Motor Task Manager (MTM) is a portable computerised system for assessing the function of the arm. The aim of this project was to examine whether the MTM system was able to measure movements of the arm accurately and whether similar results could be found when repeated on different days. Healthy adults were studied and sat at a table in front of a computer. They moved a cursor to targets on the computer screen and their arm movements were measured using a sophisticated system for measuring movement.The results indicated that the MTM protocol is reliable and results are valid, in comparison to specific variables measured using the Vicon motion analysis system.