Welcome to MTAPSystems
MTAPSystems is a turnkey interactive website for identifying functional abilities, disabilities, and physical performance that can be used as integral components for patient management, particularly those with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). MTAPSystems includes a range of validated, clinically-meaningful, and pragmatic tests across important physical domains for MSDs including:
Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP):
⦁ Full version (50 items)
⦁ Short form (SF) - lift and carry (16 items) (NEW!)
Performance Tests:
⦁ Crate Lifts
⦁ Modified Beiring Sorensen Test and Ito test for isometric back endurance
⦁ Prone Plank Test for isometric core endurance
⦁ Repetitive Squat Test
Some of the key features of MTAPSystems:
⦁ English and Spanish translations for all tests and reports
⦁ Automated scoring and reports
⦁ Ability to email MTAP and PRO tests to patients
⦁ Patient education videos
MTAP - PATIENT REPORTED FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME ONLINE
QUESTIONNAIRE
⦁ Identifies functional abilities and limitations
⦁ Practical, quantifiable, and user-friendly
⦁ Emphasis on function, and patient centered care
⦁ Patient Reported Objective Measurement
⦁ Use world wide in clinics today
Recommended uses for the two MTAP versions:
MTAP full version (50 items):
⦁ Situations in which evaluation of a wide range of functional tasks, activities, and physical abilities is preferred.
⦁ Upper extremity conditions.
⦁ Statistical comparison of the observed Rating of Perceived Capacity (RPC) to Physical Demand Characteristic (PDC) of work level based on previously published analyses.
⦁ Assessment of tasks, activities, and functional abilities at the below "Sedentary" PDC through the "Heavy" PDC level.
⦁ Detailed examination of Response Consistency, including statistically calculated Infit and Outfit Scores.
MTAP-SF Lift & Carry (16 items):
⦁ In clinical settings where fewer items to reduce response burden (time to administer test) are advantageous. MTAP-SF reduces test administration time by approximately 67% compared with 50-item MTAP
⦁ When the clinical focus is on lift and carry capacity, not a wide range of
physical demands.
⦁ Assessment of tasks, activities, and functional abilities at the "Light" PDC
through the "Very Heavy" PDC level.
⦁ MTAP-SF contains two new items at the "Very Heavy" PDC level, which
are useful for patients with higher level occupational demands.
The outcome measures (i.e., MTAP, region-specific PROs, and Performance Tests) available on MTAPSystems are among the cornerstones for clinical applications in patient-centered care approaches and current healthcare environments.
⦁ Vest patients in their own care (education).
⦁ Guide clinical decision-making.
⦁ Improve health care decisions delivery and quality of care.
⦁ Establish outcomes.
⦁ Are required for accountability and reimbursement.
These outcome measures make life easier for healthcare providers:
⦁ Objectively measure ADLs and physical function.
⦁ Quantify patient improvements, plateaus, or decrements when performed
at baseline and periodic timepoint points during care.
⦁ Education: Opens dialogue with patient and makes education process
more straightforward. Enhance patient-centered care and shared
decision-making.
⦁ Provide better informed decisions for patients and therapists, improving
delivery of treatment plans.
MTAP - DEVELOPED BY THE VERT MOONEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (dba U.S. SPINE & SPORT FOUNDATION)
Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP) - a Physical Function Objective Measure. The MTAP is an online patient reported functional outcome questionnaire developed by the Spine & Sport Foundation.
The MTAP identifies specific functional limitations and the general effect of functional limitations on a person's ability to work, provide self-care in activities of daily living, and participate in other home and community activities.
The MTAP is also designed to monitor treatment progress and outcomes. When it is administered on a serial basis as part of a treatment program, changes in functional status can be identified and measured, and the effect of treatment confirmed.
⦁ MTAP Presentations Click here
⦁ MTAP Sample Questions Click here
⦁ MTAP Sample Report Click here
⦁ MTAP Sample Health and Behavioral Assessment Click here
⦁ PRO (QuickDASH) Sample Report Click here
⦁ Performance Test (Biering-Sorensen) Test Click here
Physical Demand Characteristics (PDC)
For the injured worker, the MTAP matches a person’s abilities to the job demands of the specific work categories defined by the US Department of Labor.
Click here for PDCMTAP is designed to be user friendly and approachable by patients.
The MTAP assesses a wide range of activities of daily living, from self care, cooking and light housekeeping, to heavy home maintenance and lawn and garden tasks.
Click here for ADL Table