Farnes Institute

Basic Overview of the P²Q² Analysis:  

• A revolutionary patented process that identifies quantifiable human performance strengths and weaknesses.
•  A proven product that has been refined in over 20 years of clinical application.
• Assesses over 150 functional movement, flexibility, strength, posture alignment and balance measurements.
• Provides quantitative benchmarks of physical performance that accurately track and validate appropriate treatment and training interventions.
• Provide customized exercise and therapeutic regimens.
• Clinically developed through experiences, observations and outcomes.

Benefits of the P²Q² Analysis:

• Enhances quality of life
• Promotes longevity of life
• Provides balance and harmony 
• Reduces unnecessary suffering
• Establishes a strategy of living that promotes Optimum Performance Living
• Eliminates and reduces unnecessary medical costs
• Provides previously unknown information to the consumer that is relevant, reliable, reproducible and essential 
• Extends the window of performance opportunity
• Affords customized treatment and training programs   
• Provides personal advocacy resources to manage desired outcomes of performance
• Prevents inherent weaknesses and compensatory accommodations that lead to abnormal tissue breakdown
• Determines the efficacy of treatment or training care intervention
• Establishes baseline values of function essential in establishing severity of injury  
• Ensures proper progression through recovery
• Provides an integrative and comprehensive approach to living
• Affords non-invasive testing  

Summary of the P²Q² Analysis:

The P²Q² Analysis identifies quantifiable human performance strengths and weaknesses. The data that the P²Q² Analysis yields provides critical information needed in achieving Optimum Performance Living goals and objectives as well as the management of client cases as they relate to musculoskeletal concerns. There is no universally agreed-upon standard for measuring and correlating human performance such as strength, flexibility and range of motion and as a result, the standards of measurements yield data that is fractured and compartmentalized. The P²Q² Analysis is revolutionary in the sense that it establishes all-inclusive quantitative benchmarks of individual physical performance. These benchmarks can be used in historical trending to aid the consumer, health care practitioners and the fitness industry in determining the effectiveness of a prescribed course of treatment and training over time.  The P²Q² Analysis is a pioneering idea that promotes harmony, longevity and quality of life.  On a deeper level, the P²Q² Analysis will help solve the global orthopedic health care crisis by providing quantifiable evidence to support the accountability of the consumer, health authority/exchange and care providers. P²Q² Analysis will change the world by helping individuals--one at a time. Victor Hugo said it best: “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Farnes believes it is the time.   

Brief Overview

Farnes Institute is committed to gathering, assimilating and interpreting Knowledge-Driven Research and Data to support the Optimum Performance Living Model. The Farnes Institute has performed over 3,000 individual P²Q² Analyses and has collected well over five billion isolated data points of information to better understand ratio correlations between groups and individual numeric values. Understanding these correlations is paramount in assisting our clients in optimizing human performance potential while reducing the risk of injury and validating training/treatment intervention procedures and reducing the cost of healthcare services.

Fundamental Data Flaws in the Current Healthcare System

The failure to gather essential information critical in the decision-making process has resulted in a fragmented SickCare Model rife with ineffective interventions and overpriced services. As alarming as this statement may be, our flaws as a medical profession are revealed by the research of Lohr (1995) when he summarized, “only 4% of all healthcare services show strong supportive scientific evidence…modest evidence exists for 45% of patient care…very weak or nonexistent for the remaining 51%” (pp. 49–56). The field of medicine glamorizes technological advances and touts control of technical uncertainty and bias; but, it is evident that the present model of health care is truly embryonic and requires new ideas and concepts. L. L. Weed understood the solution when he stated, “Patient data must be systematically linked to medical knowledge in a combinatorial manner, before the exercise of clinical judgment, using information tools to elicit all possibilities relevant to the problem situation, while defining and documenting the information taken into account” (p. x). Because of the complexity of all the information and data, it is impossible to correlate all the variables and context without improving the standards of care for managing clinical information.

The Solution

For decades, the Farnes Institute has been gathering the richest collection of comprehensive musculoskeletal data to be found in the world. The data has principally been used in directing clinical care intervention based on the evidence of facts derived from the P²Q² Analysis. The primary challenge of organizing and managing this amount of information and data, the problem that the Farnes Institute once faced, is also one of the problems inherent in the medical model; however, the solution is found in the concept of fluidity of knowledge which is founded on the research of Dr. Dell K. Allen and Dr. Kenneth Tingey. Tingey, Farnes and Miroslaw describe (2013) that “[t]he original work was developed as a tree-based approach for computerizing knowledge and is currently referred to as generative taxonomy approach. The generative taxonomy model is unique in that it provides a complete logical structure, but is simple to learn and to use…The net result is that subject experts themselves can participate in the process…The generative taxonomy model is far more efficient for building and integrating processes than our traditional computer programs” (pp. 129-130). Leveraging the understanding and application of fluidity allows the Farnes Institute to transform its data and information into Expressive Knowledge, which represents the knowledge of a process, of what to do and how and when to do it. By combining fluidity, expressive knowledge as well as rich data and information stores, the Farnes Institute is prepared to provide a global society with a new and improved musculoskeletal model of health and well-being.

Reference:

Lohr, K. N. (1995). Guidelines for clinical practice: What are they and why they count. J. Law Med & Ethics, 23, 49-56.

 Tingey, K. B., Manicki, M., & Farnes, L. D. (2013). 2020 program for global health: Knowledge-driven universal coverage in this decade. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace. 

Weed, L.L. & Weed, L. (2011). Medicine in denial. United States of America: Createspace