Motor Control Flashcards
What is motor control?
Understanding the neural, physical, and behavioral aspects of biological movements
(stimulus, stimulus identification, response selection, response programming, movement output)
What is a motor skill?
Coordinated movement strategies with a goal or attaining and action
(require voluntary control so reflexes are not motor skills)
What are 2 categories of motor skills?
- Mobility
- Stability
What is mobility?
requires the individual to move the body from one posture to another in a controlled manner
BOS and COG are moving
What is stability?
Static postural control (maintain a posture with unchanging COM and BOS) and dynamic postural control (adjust and maintained while UE/ LE are moving
What are gross motor skills?
Large muscle groups and body parts, acquired in early childhood
Ex: rolling, crawling, standing, walking, running
What are fine motor skills?
Require control of small muscles, smaller movement with precision
Ex: ADLs, eating, buttoning, writing
What are discrete motor skills?
Have a recognized beginning and end
Ex: sit to stand, lying down, throwing a ball
What are serial motor skills?
Series of discrete skills with a specific order
Ex: transfers bed to w/c
What are continuous motor skills?
No recognizable beginning or end
Ex: swimming, running
What are closed motor skills?
Stable and predictable environment
Ex: walking in a quiet hall, brushing teeth
What are open motor skills?
In a constantly changing unpredictable environment
Ex: shopping in grocery store or mall, crossing a busy street
What is a simple motor skill?
Simple that produces an individual movement response
Ex: kicking a ball
What are complex motor skills?
Involve multiple actions and motor programs combined to create coordinated movement
Ex: gymnastics, running and kicking a ball
What are dual task skills?
Motor skills that also involve a cognitive or physical task
Ex: walking while talking, walking while holding objects
What are the 3 stages of motor learning?
- Cognitive stage
- Associated stage
- Autonomous stage
What is the cognitive stage?
Understanding the task
What is the associated stage?
Practice movements, refine motor programs
What is the autonomous stage?
Practice movement and refine motor processes
What is intrinsic feedback?
Information given by the body
What is extrinsic feedback?
External source (timers, sensors, therapist)
What is knowledge of results?
Information about the movement outcomes
What is knowledge of performance?
Information about the nature or quality
What are interventions for flexibility?
- Preventative: ROM and stretching exercises
- Limits range due to tone/contracture may require low load prolonged stretching through splinting or bracing
- Include a warm up period to enhance stretching
- Cold may help reduce spasms if they are limited motion
- FES, PNF, botox, baclofen help reduce spasticity if it is present and limiting function
What are intervention strategies for strengthening/neuro re-ed?
- Isometrics used for stability and maintaining postures and positions
- Concentric and eccentric help initiate movement
- Electromyographic feedback used with severe weakness and used to assist in recruitment of muscles and re-education
- May need to move to gravity delimited positions
What is Ataxia?
Inability to coordinated muscles, joints, and limbs for smooth and accurate movement
Usually due to cerebellar lesions