Exploring Motor Control

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