Optimizing motor planning Flashcards
What is a newer 3rd category of UMN dysfunction
Adaptive features: can include synergies and maladaptive strategies
How do adaptive features develop
in response to an individuals attempts to move w/in the constraints of their impairment
What are the 2 kinds of primary impairments
Negative
positive
What are negative impairments
hemiplegia/hemiparesis sensory loss fatigue decreased mvmt and speed decreased motor praxis
what are positive impairments
if you display these you have the disorder spasticity aaxia intention tremor resting tremor
What are the 2 primary ways of motor learning
Implicit
Explicit
What is explicit learning
conscious encoding of specific facts, tasks, rules, and events
How to facilitate explicit motor learning
provide task-relevant feedback and cues that are more generalizable
What is implicit motor learning
unconscious change in behavior resulting from repetition w/in a stable context
How to facilitate implicit moor learning
structuring the environment to create consistent cues and frequent opportunities for practice
What is the dynamical systems theory based in
mathematics
what are basic concepts of the dynamical systems theory
they are self-organizing
systems exist to solve problems that are internal or external challenges
have the capacity to self-organize to meet the challenge
seek the most efficient solutions to self organize
What are the most efficient solutions in dynamic systems
those w/ the least amount of degrees of freedom (# of components that are free to vary)
What are OTs interested in in dynamical systems
the disequilibrium that occurs when a dynamic system is disrupted
how is the dynamical systems organized
Heterarchical not hierarchical
not a specific order and spinal levels strucutres aren’t responsible for direct mvmt commands
not bottom up or top down
What is the ecological systems theory
human dev. is influenced by different types of environmental systems
What does the ecological systems theory help us understand
Why we behave differently when we compare our behavior in the presence of family and at wok/school.
Why was the motor program theory developed
to limit the degrees of freedom during motor performance
What are the 2 distinct concepts of the motor program theory
- a motor program is a memory based schema that controls coordinated movt.
- Attractor is a preferred pattern w/in a motor control system that leads to a consistent pattern of performance (practice makes perfect)
What is the goal of the motor program theory
to create a stable yet flexible attractor state
What are generalized motor programs
prestructured sets of central commands that govern a particular class of actions (muscle memory)