MET......Medical Exercise Therapy....
.... a complete active rehabilitation approach from Scandinavia. The ”bread and butter” in physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
Medical Exercise Therapy (MET) is an active rehabilitation system based on more than 30 years of clinical experience and research. The MET approach offers the latest in active rehabilitation and teaches participants how to apply local and global exercises.
Through active graded exercises, patients can be put directly into an exercise program aimed at treating pain and decreased motion, increasing endurance and strength, as well as improving activities of daily living. The system accommodates for treating athletes and ordinary patients with acute or chronic pain. Emphasis is put on optimal grading to increase the tolerance for loading and to normalize muscle imbalance and coordination.
Medical Exercise Therapy provides guidelines for how to use active exercises as a cognitive behavioral approach to change patients´ pain behavior. MET also provides a better understanding of how to use graded exercises to treat straight forward organic dysfunctions such as supraspinatus tendinitis, sciatica, hip arthrosis, patellofemoral pain and more.
The Medical Exercise Therapy approach has its own defined criteria. Included in the criteria is the minimum time that the patient exercises. This time is set at one hour. During this hour most patients, who are in an early phase of the treatment, are able to do seven to nine different graded exercises, at three sets of thirty repetitions, up to a total of one thousand repetitions. The high number of repetitions are aimed at treating the pain experience and to increase range of motion.
The MET criteria also states that the therapist must be present in the exercise room to supervise, support and motivate the patient and to regrade the exercises according to the patient´s symptoms, needs and expectations.
MET can also be conducted as a group therapy where up to five patients are exercising together in a group setting. However, each patient may have different diagnoses and therefore an individually designed exercise program for his/her movement dysfunction. The assessment of the patient is the basis for choosing and grading relevant exercises.
Oddvar Holten, a Norwegian physiotherapist and manipulative therapist, developed MET during the early 1960s. From the early 1990s, Tom Arild Torstensen, who is also a physiotherapist and manipulative therapist, took over the Holten Institute in Oslo and has further developed the MET concept. Medical Exercise Therapy is today a household name in all Scandinavian countries, most other European countries and North America.
.... a complete active rehabilitation approach from Scandinavia. The ”bread and butter” in physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
Medical Exercise Therapy (MET) is an active rehabilitation system based on more than 30 years of clinical experience and research. The MET approach offers the latest in active rehabilitation and teaches participants how to apply local and global exercises.
Through active graded exercises, patients can be put directly into an exercise program aimed at treating pain and decreased motion, increasing endurance and strength, as well as improving activities of daily living. The system accommodates for treating athletes and ordinary patients with acute or chronic pain. Emphasis is put on optimal grading to increase the tolerance for loading and to normalize muscle imbalance and coordination.
Medical Exercise Therapy provides guidelines for how to use active exercises as a cognitive behavioral approach to change patients´ pain behavior. MET also provides a better understanding of how to use graded exercises to treat straight forward organic dysfunctions such as supraspinatus tendinitis, sciatica, hip arthrosis, patellofemoral pain and more.
The Medical Exercise Therapy approach has its own defined criteria. Included in the criteria is the minimum time that the patient exercises. This time is set at one hour. During this hour most patients, who are in an early phase of the treatment, are able to do seven to nine different graded exercises, at three sets of thirty repetitions, up to a total of one thousand repetitions. The high number of repetitions are aimed at treating the pain experience and to increase range of motion.
The MET criteria also states that the therapist must be present in the exercise room to supervise, support and motivate the patient and to regrade the exercises according to the patient´s symptoms, needs and expectations.
MET can also be conducted as a group therapy where up to five patients are exercising together in a group setting. However, each patient may have different diagnoses and therefore an individually designed exercise program for his/her movement dysfunction. The assessment of the patient is the basis for choosing and grading relevant exercises.
Oddvar Holten, a Norwegian physiotherapist and manipulative therapist, developed MET during the early 1960s. From the early 1990s, Tom Arild Torstensen, who is also a physiotherapist and manipulative therapist, took over the Holten Institute in Oslo and has further developed the MET concept. Medical Exercise Therapy is today a household name in all Scandinavian countries, most other European countries and North America.