Motor Control Theories

Question 1

What is motor control?

Answer 1

Motor Control requires a system of neuromuscular and biomechanical networks working to provide input to create a successful movement outcome.

Question 2

The motor control system that is unique to the individual is also affected by what two things?

Answer 2

• The type of task
• The conditions of the environment in which the task is being performed

Question 3

What is the “dynamic systems theory” of motor control?

Answer 3

Systems unique to the individual that are affected by the type of task and the conditions of the environment in which the task is being performed.

Question 4

Modern therapy clinical practice is primarily _____ _____ and follows this systematic assumption of motor control.

Answer 4

“Task Oriented”

Question 5

Therapist cater treatment to who?

Answer 5

The individual

Question 6

A therapist may alter a patient’s movement based on what?

Answer 6

An at-home environmental context unique to that individual

Question 7

Motor control is defined as the ability to regulate or direct what?

Answer 7

The mechanisms essential to movement

Question 8

Movement is a critical aspect of what?

Answer 8

Of life

Question 9

What two things are essential to clinical practice?

Answer 9

• Understanding the relationship between motor control and nature
• Control of normal movement and abnormal movement

Question 10

Motor control is the study of the nature of what?

Answer 10

Movement and how movement is controlled

Question 11

The study of motor control includes what three things that contribute to functional movement?

Answer 11

• Individual systems
• Task constraints
• Environmental constraints

Question 12

Motor control addresses four relationships to best select and control movement. What are they?

Answer 12

• CNS Organization of muscles for force and joints for alignment (individual)
• Integration of sensory information inputs for tasks (individual)
• Parameters of a task
• Environmental influences on both the individual and task

Question 13

Motor control is governed by three overall factors, what are they?

Answer 13

• Task
• Environment
• Individual

Question 14

The individual generates movement to meet the demands of the _____?

Answer 14

Task being performed within a specific environment

Question 15

What are the three subsystems of that “individual” portion of Task, Environment, and Individual?

Answer 15

• Motor/ Action: neuromuscular and biomechanical systems
• Sensory/ Perception: peripheral sensory and higher-level processing; information regarding the state and position of the body
• Cognitive: Attention, planning, problem solving, motivation, and emotional aspects of motor control