PalpationMapp vs P&O Comet

PalpationMapp is an easy-to-navigate visual guide to identifying and palpating 91 essential muscles. Acclaimed author of Trail Guide to the Body, Andrew Biel provides clear instructions that will build your confidence as you practice palpating with precision. With PalpationMapp, students and practitioners in the manual therapy professionals deepen their understanding of the musculoskeletal system and master their palpation skills. Features of this app include: • 91 essential muscles presented in a HD quality video format • 200 beautiful overlay images from the Trail Guide to the Body textbook depict underlying anatomy during palpation • Check-it box, for nearly every muscle, which helps the user confirm the location of the muscle being palpated This app teaches the user to: • Identify key bony landmarks • Identify and engage muscles • Palpate and get a sense of fiber direction • Differentiate muscles from adjacent structures • Shorten and lengthen muscles Menu-guided navigation to individual palpation clips within the app is a breeze. PalpationMapp is a convenient, at-your-fingertips educational tool that will take you further on the path to mastery of palpation.

The Clinical Outcome Measures Electronic Toolkit (COMET) provides a library of fifteen useful clinical outcome measures for prosthesis and orthosis (P&O) users and clinicians. COMET simplifies and standardizes the use of outcome measures for daily clinical practice by enabling practitioners to easily select the appropriate measure, administer the test(s), and immediately receive the results as a printable/exportable PDF document to inform evidence-based clinical care and to be included in the patient’s electronic health record. © 2021-2023 Orthocare Innovations, LLC. Development of this application was supported by Center for O&P Learning (COPL) pilot grants, funded by the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA), in addition to internal research and development support from Orthocare Innovations, LLC. Multi-lingual support in COMET was supported by the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R43MD018240. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.