Prehension and Ballistic Skills Flashcards

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What body part is involved in fine motor development of prehension?

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Hand

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What is prehension?

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Process of reaching and grasping - ability to use the hands and the UE effectively

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What are the primary components of prehension?

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Visual regard, reach (approach), grasp, manipulation, and release

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How does stabilization factor into prehension?

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Trunk and UE require varied degrees of stabilization to afford us the ability to reach and grasp objects

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What is visual regard?

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Visual attention of the object

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What are the two factors of visual regard?

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  1. Visual regard - accommodation (focus) and convergence

2. Visual perception - ability to use visual information to recognize, recall, discriminate, and understand what we see

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What does visual regard require?

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Eye-head-trunk coordination

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What is approach (reaching)?

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Directing or adjusting of the hand toward an object

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What does approaching require?

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Visual-motor control - eye-hand coordination

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What does reaching involve?

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Movement of all joints of the UE - vision initially important followed by tactile and proprioceptive input

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What are postural adjustments associated with reaching?

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Arms play a role with balance and hand can be used to form a new BOS

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What does movement beyond arm’s length entail?

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Movement of the trunk and the hips

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What are the three stages of development of reaching?

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  1. Prereaching - birth to 4 months
  2. Visually guided reaching - 4 to 8 months
  3. Visual elicited reaching - 9+ months
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What is prereaching?

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Excited thrashing of the limbs and no correction of reach once initiated

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What is visually guided reaching?

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Increased use of vision to guide hands and make corrections as they reach

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What is visually elicited reaching?

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No longer needs to see hand to guide reach and infant shapes hand correctly for the object

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What are the two types of grip?

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Power and precision

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What is the power grip?

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Forcible activities of the fingers and thumb that act against the palm to transmit a force to an object

18
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What are three examples of power grips?

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Cylindrical, spherical, and hook

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What is precision grip?

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Forces are directed between the thumb and fingers without contacting the palm

20
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What are three examples of precision grip?

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Pad to pad prehension, tip to tip prehension, and pad to side (lateral) prehension

21
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What percentage does the thumb contribute to total hand function?

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40-70%

22
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What is opposition?

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Movement by which the pad surface of the thumb is placed diametrically opposite the terminal par of one or all of the digits

23
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What is the second most important finger?

A

Index finger

24
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Which finger is the longest and the strongest?

A

Middle finger

25
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What percentage does the index finger play in lateral pinch and power grip (supinated and pronated)?

A
Lateral pinch - 20%
Power grip (supinated) - 20%
Power grip (pronated) - 50%
26
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What two digits are the most anatomically stable?

A

Index and middle finger

27
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What two digits are the most mobile and weakest?

A

Ring and pinky finger

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What are the three development grasps?

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  1. Reflexive grasp - traction response and grasp reflex
  2. Transitional reaction - orienting response and instinctive grasp
  3. Purposeful grasp - squeeze grasp (palmar grasp) and radial palmar grasp (radial digital grasp)
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What is the goal of catching?

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Retain possession of object that is caught

30
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How is catching developed?

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Master ability to move left or right/forward or backward and point fingers up or down when catching a high or low ball

31
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What is throwing?

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Ability to project an object accurately and with sufficient force through space

32
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How does throwing develop?

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6 months - crude unrefined throwing

2 years - immature, stiff, and jerky throw

33
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What is a fundamental movement used in a number of child and adult games?

A

Ball-bouncing

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What is striking?

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Propulsion skill - object or body part is used to project an object

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What are characteristics of early sidearm striking?

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Chopping motion (elbow extension) and little leg and trunk movement

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How does striking progress?

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Sideways preparatory stance, arm extended before contact, and swing through a large ROM