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    • Classes >
      • Pilates
      • CPR training and first aid for parents
      • Prenatal Class
      • Yoga
    • Doula
    • FREE Webinars >
      • Back Pain/Sciatica
      • How Baby Gets to Walking
      • Intimacy and Sexuality in the Postnatal Period
      • Painful Sex
      • Perinatal Bereavement
    • Massage >
      • Sea Salt Scrub
      • Swedish
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Osteopathy >
      • Adult
      • Pediatric
      • Pregnancy
    • Physiotherapy >
      • Web Physio >
        • Web McKenzie/Ortho
        • Web Pediatric Physiotherapy >
          • Learn More
        • Web Pelvic Floor >
          • Learn More
      • Orthopedic/McKenzie
      • Pediatric >
        • Baby's Motor Development: Educational Session
        • Pediatric pelvic and perineal physiotherapy
      • Perineal and Pelvic Rehabilitation
      • Vestibular Rehabilitation
    • Sex Therapy
  • McKenzie Method
    • What is it?
    • Problems Treated
    • MDT Assessment
    • MDT Treatment
  • Medical Conditions
    • Headaches
    • Musculoskeletal >
      • Jaw pain/temporomandibular problems
      • Bell's Palsy
      • Belt pains
      • Cervicogenic Dizziness
      • Low Back Pain
      • Lumbar Spondylolisthesis
      • Plantar Fasciitis/Heel Pain
      • Restless Leg Syndrome
      • Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy (Tendinitis)
      • Sciatica
      • Spondylosis
      • Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)
    • Pediatric >
      • Constipation
      • Baby's Motor Development: Educational Session with a Physiotherapist
      • Gross Motor Developmental Delay
      • Hip Conditions >
        • Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
        • Legg-Calves-Perthes
        • Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
      • Idiopathic Toe Walking
      • Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury
      • Plagiocephaly
      • Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
      • Torticollis
    • Perineal and Pelvic >
      • What is the Pelvic Floor?
      • Fecal Complaints >
        • Anal Fissures
        • Constipation
        • Hemorrhoids
        • Fecal Incontinence
        • Rectocele
      • Pelvic Pain >
        • Chronic Prostatitis
        • Coccydynia
        • Dyspareunia
        • Pelvic Girdle Pain
        • Vaginismus
        • Vulvodynia
      • Pelvic Organ Prolapse
      • Post Operative Problems
      • Postpartum Care >
        • Postpartum Depression
        • Diastasis Recti
        • Mastitis
        • Miscarriage
      • Prenatal Care
      • Sexual Complaints >
        • Chronic Prostatitis
        • ♀ Decreased Sexual Pleasure
        • Dyspareunia
        • Vaginismus
        • Vulvodynia
      • Urinary Complaints >
        • Difficulties Voiding Urine
        • Interstitial Cystitis
        • Night-Time Urination
        • Overactive Bladder
        • Urinary Incontinence
        • Urinary Urgency
    • Mental Health >
      • Postpartum Depression
      • Miscarriage
    • Vestibular >
      • What is the Vestibular System?
      • Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
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      • Doula >
        • Shanie Lapointe
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        • Jeffrey Quintela Pires
        • Stevie Fisher St-Denis
        • Natasha Granié
      • Occupational Therapist >
        • Michael Terzian
      • Osteopath >
        • Xavier Roger
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        • Dana Dufour
        • Yu Xin Hu
        • Kim Kearvell
        • Ivona Yordanova
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        • Monica Chan
        • Philippe Dufour
        • Michael Dyck
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 Assessment in the McKenzie Method/MDT

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The McKenzie Method/MDT assessment is a primary aspect that sets this approach off from other methods of treatment.  The McKenzie Method/MDT assessment uses a scientifically proven, reliable and validated system that allows the physiotherapist to accurately classify your problem.  By using different movements and positions, and then immediately testing to see the effects of each procedure on your symptoms, a scientific method is used to determine the best possible treatment method for your problem.  The McKenzie Method/MDT is truly based on sound principles of logic and common sense, combined with decades of clinical experience and research.

The McKenzie Method/MDT assessment focuses on categorizing your problem based on characteristics that can be easily observed in the clinic. These characteristics allow your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist to determine the treatment that will be most effective for you.

The McKenzie Method/MDT assessment will ensure that the problem you are having will be appropriate for physiotherapy treatment and that no further medical testing needs to be done.

Assessment Process in the McKenzie Method/MDT

In the McKenzie Method/MDT the assessment process is broken down into 3 components
  • Questioning to understand the problem
  • The physical exam
  • The interpretation of the results of the assessment
QUESTIONING
PHYSICAL EXAM
INTERPRETATION
QUESTIONING
The first part of the assessment in the McKenzie Method/MDT involves telling your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist about your current musculoskeletal problem and also about yourself (your job, leisure activities) and your medical history (health conditions, surgeries), which can be important to understand your condition and its effects on your daily life.  Every problem is different and at Active Solution Physiotherapy Montreal we take the time to thoroughly understand how your pain is behaving. Your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist will want to know all about this current problem and will ask questions such as:
  • What are your symptoms?
  • When did it start?
  • Has it gotten better or worse?
  • Are there certain activities that make your pain better or worse?
  • Do certain positions increase or decrease your pain?
  • Are you better if you move around or if you are still?

These types of questions will allow your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist to understand the biomechanics behind your pain.  All of this information will help to guide the appropriate choice of testing procedures in the next part of the McKenzie Method/MDT Assessment, the physical exam.

Your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist will also ask specific questions to verify that your problem is coming from a musculoskeletal problem, and if there is any doubt they will refer you to see a doctor for further testing.
PHYSICAL EXAM
The physical exam is the next part of the McKenzie Method/MDT Assessment.  Your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist will perform tests to determine your physical limitations.  They will look for strength and movement loss and changes to your pain with different tests.  If necessary your physiotherapist will also test for signs of nerve compression by testing for changes in sensation, strength and testing your reflexes.
Repeated movements are an important part of the McKenzie Method/MDT Assessment and are not normally included in other therapeutic methods. Repeated movements can have a very different effect than a single movement.  With repetition, a movement that was painful can become pain-free and a pain-free movement can become painful. If the symptoms change with repetition of a movement, it indicates a very different type of problem than when the symptoms are consistent.  This provides essential information on the biomechanics of your problem, and can clearly indicate the proper McKenzie Method/MDT treatment. This additional information is often missed in other therapy approaches, and is often key to successful treatment.

Postures and sustained positioning are another important component that is examined in a McKenzie Method/MDT Assessment. Different positions and postures will often have a clear effect on symptoms.  By exploring the effect of different postures and positions on your symptoms, your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist is able to further understand the biomechanics of your condition, and this information again points to the proper McKenzie Method/MDT treatment.
INTERPRETATION
The goal of the McKenzie Method/MDT Assessment is to understand the biomechanics of your condition in order to determine the proper classification of your problem into one of several syndromes that are unique to the McKenzie Method/MDT. By analyzing the information that you have provided in the questioning portion of the assessment and that which has been obtained in the Physical Exam, your Montreal McKenzie Method/MDT Physiotherapist will determine the type of problem you are suffering from.  Once your problem has been identified and classified into one of the unique McKenzie Method/MDT syndromes, it is a simple matter of performing the treatment that is matched to your specific problem.
Continue reading on our McKenzie Method/MDT Treatment Page.

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  • Dana Dufour
  • Philippe Dufour
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  • Kalem Kachur
  • Kim Kearvell
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