QMA42 - Improvement Summary
- Compliant with all MS Windows operating systems - including Win 2000 & XP
- Construct Protocols,
Muscle Tests and muscle testing sequence as your needs
dictate and at your convenience - not at the discretion of a programmer. - All testing information is Protocol specific - You may have Multiple Sites / Multiple Protocols - test in any measuring unit – Kgs, Lbs, or Newtons.
- Input your patient information in either English/ American or International format.
- Construct different muscles to test and their sequence in unique protocols.
- Begin Visit by Double Clicking on Patient Information -faster and easier test start.
- Change Visit Number to
meet requirements of protocol – pre-qualify can be
PQ001, regular test – 00001 – automatically sequences from last digits - Protocols and Muscle
tests have LONG file names; Left Elbow Extension is
no longer “LELBEXT”, but is now Left Elbow Extension, or your designation. - Utility Included to
change previously acquired QMA muscle tests to Long names -
Improve the ability to share database information, including normative data. - Extremity Weight for Hip Extension a Problem ? - NOT ANY MORE - Set the loaded weight or tare to zero, check zero and test. Measure the effort–not the extremity.
- Stop a strength test at
a predefined percentage from maximum, or disable the
stop test so multiple traces can be taken, or a full effort (curve) acquired. - Myatonia
& Oppenheim's syndrome
- Measure the back-slope of an effort / Create
Notes including the release point for reference - Query/export to Excel to analyze. - Variable fatigue modeling -explained with examples-you set the analytical ranges.
- Increased data points per second and enhanced effort to time accuracy.
- Corresponding time of effort and acquired data points displayed and associated directly.
- View or print longitudinal patient's efforts of one or several muscles tested.
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Print a summary of tests of a patient, may include referring physician and disease.
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View patients visits - includes dates of visits and visit numbers
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Calibration check of input devices simplified - about three minutes per device.
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Calibration Log File - Upon checking calibration - builds a continuous calibration
log file that may be reviewed or printed. Contains date and time of calibration, etc. -
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - Need to check Height and Weight each visit ? -
Build these as "Other" Tests, and enter the data at each visit. -
Virtually paperless testing - Reject a trial within the test including annotation -
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Make NOTES as needed – anytime during the testing process.
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Time tests within the program - need to time an event (3 stair climb) ? - use the "stopwatch" inside qma.
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Transfer MMT information to QMA in "Other" Tests - reduce paper to your statisticians.
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Compile, Query, and Export acquired qma42 data to MS EXCEL for analysis. Compatible with Office 2000.
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New and updated USER MANUAL available with QMA 42 – with Notes and Hints.
Optional Equipment and software now available -
Test with multiple input devices (two to five max) – from 1.1 lbf to 1000 lbf. – reduces time testing – eliminates switching input devices from head to foot.
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QMA Software Converter for previously acquired data (qma v1.1 – 3.4) and (qma 4.0, 4.1) to file format of QMA42 – permits data to be queried and exported to MS Excel.
- Pinch test input device now available – 50 lbf capacity - +.05 % max error.
- Hand Held Myometry input
equipment with integrated remote switch now available -
50 or 100 lbf capacity - +.05 % max error.