3.2.2. The procedure of diagnostics

3.2.2.1. Ask the examinee to sit in front of the table and, if necessary, adjust the height of the chair on which he is sitting (especially when you deal with a child).

Place the device ATS-6 on the table in front of the examinee. Then turn the device 45 degrees counter clockwise.

The examinee puts the forearm of his right arm on the handle and panel of the device according to the center (between the pairs of lamellar electrodes) and clasps the left romper suit of cinematometer by his thumb and forefinger. Make sure that his arm is in a convenient position, similar to the position of writing.

After that the examinee makes some trial movements of his romper suit on purposely chosen segments both with his eyes open and shut. He should feel the movement of the romper suit, the distance of its movement, he should remember the scale and estimate the convenience of accepted pose. He should make his arm movements smoothly, without any sudden stops and yanks in a convenient for the examinee tempo. Then it is necessary to translocate the romper suit to the left against the stop.

After the above-stated preparations the examinee is given some commands which he should Follow with his eyes shut in the Following sequence.

3.2.2.2. Give the command “choose” according to which the examinee puts his romper suit to the right on an arbitrary selected distance limited to 40-60 divisions and remembers the movement he has just performed.

3.2.2.3. Make the counting of the indicator of a risk on the romper suit to within one division of a bar and put the result into column 2 of table 8. Then give the command “back” according to which the examinee translocates the romper suit to the left against the stop.

3.2.2.4. Give the command “add a little” according to which the examinee should try to repeat the first movement, but he should do it with minimum accessible exceeding (it is desirable to one millimeter). Put down the result into column 3 of table 8. Then, after the command “back” the examinee transfers the romper suit to the left against the stop.

Table 8 – the report of the diagnostics of NS mobility-inertness

of cycle of movement	Selected interval, divisions	The result of the first investigation, divisions	Deviations from the first investigation, divisions	The result of the second investigation, divisions	Deviations from the second investigation, divisions
1	2	3	4	5	6

3.2.2.5. Give the command “lower a little” according to which the examinee should repeat his first movement, but he should do it, on the contrary, with minimum possible understating (also to one millimeter). Put down the result into column 5 of table 8. Then give the command “back”.

Thus, the first cycle consisting of three movements: 1) “expose”, 2) “add a little”, 3) “lower a little” is considered to be fulfilled.

3.2.2.6. Then the examinee fulfills the second cycle consisting of three movements mirroring the first one. For this purpose the examinee Follows the command “choose” and selects a new segment of driving within the same interval (40-60 divisions) and remembers it. Then the procedures till item 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5 are repeated, but in a return sequence, i.e. at first he repeats the segment with minimum possible understating, after that – with minimum possible exceeding.

The results of the investigations should be put down into table 8.

In the Following two experiences the procedures till items 3.2.2.2 – 3.2.2.6 are repeated again.

Note. Before every movement give the examinee a corresponding command so that he may not break the order of alteration of movements.

3.2.2.8. Then the examinee repeats the procedures till items 3.2.2.2 – 3.2.2.7 on execution of movements, but on much greater distance (approximately within 180-200 divisions). The results in the course of investigations should be put into table 8.

3.2.2.9. So, while making the diagnostics the investigator gives brief commands in the Following sequence:

Cycle 1: a) “choose”, b) “add a little”, c) “lower a little”.

Cycle 2: a) “choose”, b) “lower a little”, c) “add a little”.

Cycle 3: the commands are given in the same sequence as those shown in cycle 1.

Cycle 4: the commands are given in the same sequence as those shown in cycle 2.

On the whole you should perform 8 cycles – four cycles with small interval (40-60 divisions) and four cycles with bigger interval (180-200 divisions).