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what are the elements of movement that PTs look at?
Control, Amount, Speed, Symmetry, Symptom provocation (CASSS)
What is motor control?
the ability to regulate or direct mechanisms essential to movement
Motor control explores how the ____________ interacts with the _________ and ____________ to produce _______________ to _____________
nervous system, rest of the body, environment, purposeful and coordinated movements, accomplish a task
what is motor learning?
practice or experience leads to a relatively permanent change
what is motor development?
processes leading to changes in human motor behavior over the lifespan
what 3 factors interact to form purposeful movement
task, individual, environment
what individual systems affect movement?
cognition, action, perception
aspects of the environment that shape movement
regulatory factors
environmental factors that affect performance but do not conform movement
nonregulatory factors
what are common clinical manifestations of disordered motor control?
deficits in smoothness, coordination, sequencing, and timing
what are the task constrains on movement?
mobility, stability, manipulation
what are the different ways tasks can eb classifies?
discrete, serial, continuous