motor control & motor learning Flashcards
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what is defined as the ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement.
motor control
Motor control is information processing related to activities carried out by the
central nervous system
motor control organizes which system to create coordinated, goal-directed movements
musculoskeltal system
what are the two control strategies of the motor control
Feed-forward strategy *
Feed-back strategy
PTs are “
movement specialists”
Therapeutic strategies are designed to improve the quality and quantity of
postures and movements essential to function
The field of Motor Control is directed at studying the
nature of movement and how movement is controlled
Movement emerges from the interaction of three factors:
individual
task
environment
what affect the organization of movement
Factors within the individual, the task, and the environment
what is choosing among equivalent solutions and then coordinating the many muscles and joints involved in a movement
degrees of freedom
what systems provide information about the state of the body and features within the environment critical to the regulation of movement
Sensory/perceptual systems
the perceptioin of an individual involves both the
peripheral sensory mechanisms and higher-level processing
the peripheral sensory mechanisms and higher-level processing adds interpereation and meaning to incoming
afferent information
Cognitive processes include …… of motor control
ttention, planning, problem solving, motivation, and emotional aspects
So, within the individual, many systems interact in the
production of functional movement
The nature of the task being performed in part determines the
type of movement needed
functional categories of task
- Bed mobility tasks
- Transfer tasks
- Walking and ADLs
what is a classification of a task
critical attributes that regulate neural control mechanisms
a discrete task is
definite beginning and end
a continuous task has
No recognizable beginning and end points
examples of a continuous task is
walking, running , swimming
is end point a inherent characterisitc of a task?
no
base of support is
stable vs in motion
define stablity
stable base of support
sitting or standing