Motor Control_PL

Question 1

Describe the aspects of human movement science (3)

Answer 1

Understand how:

1. movements develop in young
2. are learned by and changed in young and old
3. underlying control mechanisms necessary for skilled performance

Question 2

Describe the benefit of understand human movement science as a PT (2)

Answer 2

Allows an understanding of normal movement and how it is altered across the life span

Allows for comparisons of current state to the patients normal and be able to come up with effective treatment plans and goals

Question 3

Term: tthe ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement

Answer 3

Motor control

Mechanisms = body, objects in environment, environment

Question 4

Term: structural connections/networks of neuronal connections in the brain and SC and to mm

Answer 4

Developmentally defined movement

Question 5

Term: Skills that are mastered after practice and experience

Answer 5

Learned movement

Question 6

List the ways movement is classifiied (2)

Answer 6

Developmentally defined

Learned

Question 7

List the 3 factors that interact to create movement

Answer 7

• individual
• task
• environment

Question 8

List the 3 factors within the individual that constrain movement

Answer 8

• action (activity selected)
• perception (peripheral/higher level processing of info about movement)
• cognition (critical for meaning/intention of movement)

Question 9

List the 2 environmental constraints on movement

Answer 9

• regulatory features (part of environment, DIRECTLY influence movement)
• non-regulatory features (parts of environment can shape but may have no influence on movement)

Question 10

List the 3 ways a task can be classified

Answer 10

• discrete vs. serial vs. continuous (well defined simple motion vs. series of discrete vs. longer task requiring frequent eval/feedback; repetitive)
• stability vs. mobility
• open vs. closed (i.e. changing vs. predictable environments)