Our Testing Approach
Educate Yourself
What's Your Score?

MSDR is a simple, non-invasive, non-touch physical exam that can be taken in ordinary street clothes in 15-minutes or less. The exam extracts nearly 1,000 clinical points of data about a person’s physical condition in four major Regions of their Body: Neck, Back and the Upper and Lower Extremities.

Empower Yourself with MSDR®

MSDR®empowers the health care consumer with an easy to understand Report of Findings that is customized to your specific physical problem. MSDR®calculates your physical presentation so you can know exactly what your physical condition is at all times for each body region. We are strong advocates of education of a person’s findings to create awareness, improve recovery from an injury, and prevent future injury episodes.

MSDR® Regional Scoring:

MSDR®reports your score in 4 body regions: the Neck, Upper Extremities, Back, and Lower Extremities.

Your Personal Risk Factors:

This section lists your positive findings on a individual basis so you and/or your doctor can find the best solution to treat and/or each one of them. This enables you and your doctor to treat your problem in a focused manner, thereby address the specific causes of your injury.

What To Do Now:

Education is key and is the first step in treating any physical condition. MSDR®allows you to set goals for yourself so that you and your doctor can track your progress and adapt your treatment plan as time goes by. For instance: if you have osteoarthritis, MSDR®allows you to integrate your findings into other standardized treatment programs like NICE guidelines (www.nice.org.uk).

A Simple Understanding of your "Musculoskeletal System"?
"Musculo" means Muscles, Ligaments & Tendons
"Skeletal" means Bones, Joints, & Spine

The combination of these is your musculoskeletal system. It is what makes your body move. You may think of this as the "mechanics" of your body.

Your ligaments connect bone to bone. Your tendons connect muscle to bone. Your muscles connect tendon to tendon.

Your nervous system supplies your musculoskeletal system with "energy" to direct it's movements from your brain.

Your blood supply bathes the system with oxygen and nutrient-rich fluid which aids in the healing process when an injury occurs.

An injury can either occur gradually or can be a result of sudden impact injuring the MS system directly. Predisposing MS risks are apparent in either of these scenarios.

You can sometimes cause injury to your musculoskeletal system and not even feel it. This is called "Micro-trauma". It happens on a microscopic level and you may not even know. When an accumulation of these traumas happen to the same part of the body, this results in scar tissue formation. As this scar tissue heals it shrinks and you loose function in this region.

If it is not identified and treated, your body will compensate with loss of function in another region of the body. Your body does this as a coping mechanism to balance out the mechanics affecting the way you move.

For example: This is one of the reasons, among others, you hear of people who bend over to pick something up and all of a sudden have debilitating back pain. These are the types of problems you want to prevent (if you can) by educating yourself on your musculoskeletal system.