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What is posture?

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A position of a persons body when standing or sitting

1
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What is balance?

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An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady

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What are the 7 components of postural control?

A
  1. Musculoskeletal component
  2. Internal representations
  3. Adaptive mechanisms
  4. Anticipatory mechanisms
  5. Sensory strategies
  6. Individual sensory systems
  7. Neuromuscular synergies
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What is postural control?

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Involves controlling body’s position in space

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What is postural orientation?

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Ability to maintain appropriate relationship between body segments and between the body and environment for a task

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What is postural stability?

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The ability to control COM in relationship to the base of support

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What is COM?

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Center of mass: is the point at the center of the total body mass at L1-L2

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What is COP?

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Center of pressure: is center of distribution of total force applied to supporting surface (COP is found through GRF)

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What is COG?

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Center of gravity: vertical projection of COM.

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What is the base of support?

A

The area of the body in contact with the supporting surface

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What does COG do during locomotion?

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During locomotion COG will be projected outside of the BOS in order to assist with movement

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What are the 3 systems in postural control?

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  1. Higher level planning
  2. Coordination
  3. Force generation
12
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Where does higher level planning come from for postural control?

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  • frontal cortex

- motor cortex

13
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What parts of the nervous system control coordination?

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Brainstem

Spinal networks coordinating muscle response synergies

14
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What is responsible for force generation in postural control?

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Motor neurons and muscles

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How does muscle tone assist with motor control if quiet stance?

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Muscle tone should provide passive resistance to lengthening

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What are the three components of postural tone during motor control of quiet stance

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Antigravity muscles
Vestibular system
Vestibuloocular reflex

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What are the three movement strategies during perturbed stance?

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Cone of stability
Feedback control
Feed foreword (anticipatory) control

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What is cone if stability?

A

How far we can lean forward without falling

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True or false: if the COM is within the cone of stability, balance can be maintained

A

True

20
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What are the three types of feedback control?

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Proprioception
Visual
Vestibular

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What is feed forward (anticipatory) control?

A

Muscles and posture react to visual, cognitive and other inputs to get ready for a change

22
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What are the three methods for maintaining stability?

A

Ankle strategy
Hip strategy
Stepping strategy

23
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What strategy for maintaining balance is used for the most distal direction?

A

Ankle

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What strategy for maintaining balance is used for the most proximal direction?

A

Stepping (to widen BOS or to correct balance)

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What muscles (anterior) are used to correct backward sway?

A

Tibialis anterior
Quadriceps
Abdominals

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What muscles (posterior) are used to correct anterior sway?

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Gastrocnemius
Hamstrings
Paraspinals

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When is stepping strategy used to correct COG?

A

If the COG has exceeded the original base of support, then the active limb is used to reestablish a new base of support

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What is suspensory strategy and when is it used?

A

Lowering the COG toward the base of support (when all else fails)

29
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What 2 things are used to overcome mediolateral instability?

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Abduction-adduction at the hip

Muscle patterns organized in a proximal-to-distal direction

30
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What three things are falls dependent on?

A

The particular perturbation
The limitation of the individual
The conditions of the environment

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What age does crawling emerge?

A

2 months

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What age does sitting (unsupported) emerge?

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6 to 7 months

33
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What age does creeping emerge?

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8 to 10 months

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What age does pull-to-stand emerge?

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9 to 10 months

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What age does independent stance emerge?

A

12 to 13 months

36
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What age does walking emerge?

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14 to 18 months

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When learning to perform the next milestone, children must revert back to a ____

A

Symmetric pattern

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What is the limiting factor on the emergence of other behaviors as well as the inhibition of reflexes in children?

A

An immature postural system

39
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What may constrain independent mobility and skills in a child?

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Abnormal development

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Most developmental tests and measures evaluate emergency of motor behaviors by evaluating what?

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Performance on functional skills that require postural control

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What are three attitudinal reflexes?

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Asymmetric tonic neck reflexes
Symmetric tonic neck reflexes
Tonic labyrinthine reflex

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What are 5 righting reactions?

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Labyrinthine righting
Optical righting
Body-on-head righting
Neck-on-body righting
Body-on-body righting
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What are three balance and protective reactions?

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Tilting response
Protective reaction
Staggering reaction

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What are the symmetric tonic neck reflexes?

A

Neck extension causes UE extension and LE flexion

Neck flexion causes UE flexion and LE extension

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What is the labyrinthine righting reaction?

A

Orients head to vestibular input

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What is optical righting?

A

Orientation of the head to visual input

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What is the body-on-head righting?

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Orients the head to proprioceptive and tactile input from the supporting surface

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What are some common reflexes that are present during the first month after birth?

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Root/suck/swallow
Moro
Crossed extension
Flexor withdrawal 
Palmar and plantar grasp
Stepping anterior side if leg on table and step
Positive support
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When are reflexes linked to abnormal development?

A

If they persist beyond their normal time period or if they fail to appear in the normal time period

50
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Can children be classified as having normal development solely based on reflexes?

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No

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What is the agreement between the two theories (reflex theory and system theory)?

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Mapping is the beginning of internal neural representations necessary for coordinated postural abilities

52
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According to reflex theory what appears when a child is 2 months of age?

A

Visual/motor coordination

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According to system theory what is present in an infant at birth?

A

Visual/perceptual mapping

54
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What is the cause of a lack of head control in a newborn?

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Lack of strength and lack of organized muscle activity

55
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This is a statement- direction specific postural responses in the neck muscles underlying reactive balance control occurs in infants as young as 1 month old

A

Couldn’t figure out how to make that a question.

56
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There are subcortical neural networks involved in the vision-driven control of posture. Are they functional at birth?

A

Yes

57
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What special sense in infants does vision have a significant effect on?

A

Vestibular

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At what age should a child be able to hold his head and upper trunk up during static balance control in sitting?

A

4 to 5 months

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At what age should a child be able to prop sit?

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5 months

60
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At what age should a child be able to independently sit?

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6 to 8 months

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When is reactive balance control present in a child during sitting?

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At birth

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What is the exception of progression (think age) of balance control during sitting?

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Reactive balance control improves steadily, except at 3 months of age … Where it then reappears with greater frequency and refinement

63
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How can postural response be modified in children?

A

Postural training may help children with motor delays

Practice increases the emergence of postural responses

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What is Base of Support (BOS)?

A

The part of the body in contact with the surface you’re in contact with or what ever

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What is Center of Mass (COM)?

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The part of the body in contact with the surface you’re in contact with or what ever…

66
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Which sensory system elicits postural responses earlier than the somatosensory system?

A

Visual system

67
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What balance strategy is not used during the first year of walking?

A

Hip strategy

68
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Which strategy is not developed until 7-10 years of age?

A

Hip strategy

69
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After what age is there no correlation between structural growth and sway during normal quiet stance?

A

7 years old

70
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Visual reliance for balance is most prominent until age _____.

A

3 years old

71
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Anticipatory postural control emerges at what age in standing?

A

10 months

72
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When is anticipatory postural control present in sitting?

A

Present in infancy

73
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Does postural demands of younger children tax attentional resources more than for older children?

A

Yea