Theories of Infant Development that Drive Treatment Flashcards
Describe NDT (neuro development treatment)
- Tx developed for adult CVA & children with cerebral palsy & developmental delay
- Uses handling techniques to inhibit abnormal tone & abnormal postural reflexes that interfere with movement; facilitate normal postural (balance) reactions to improve quality of movement
NDT treatment goals
- ID and treat pathological & poor quality patterns EARLY
- Understand normal & abnormal motor development /timing
- Analyze trace back to original problem, understand how & why
compensations in movement have occurred, treat both original
problems and compensations - Elongate/stretch muscles shortened from overuse, tone or
positioning - Facilitate normal motor responses and inhibit abnormal,
compensatory movements - Use dynamic treatment utilizing righting & equilibrium reactions.
- Follow preparatory treatment techniques with FUNCTIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Progression of abnormal development
- Original pattern: poor quality of movement,underlying hypotonia
- Habit: Repetition of poor movement patterns become habitual
- Contractures: Muscle shortening with increase tone or constant
overuse with no opposing muscle to counterbalance - Deformities: Fixed changes in muscle & bone structure from
contracture - Surgery: Required to change muscle and bone for improved
function (ie. Muscle lengthenings, osteotomies)
What are the 4 levels of development
- Mobility
- Stability
- Mobility imposed on stability in WBing (closed chain)
- Mobility imposed on stability in NWB (open chain): SKILL
Define ROOD’s development model
- Framework of treatment for children & adults with neurological deficits to improve sensorimotor function
Rood’s 9 key patterns:
a progression of positions (developmental sequence)
- Supine flexion
- Rolling
- Prone extension pivot prone
- Prone on elbows
- Prone on extended arms
- Quadruped / bear stance
- Stance
- Walking
- Squatting
Define sensory integration
- Organizing sensory information for use, allows many parts of the nervous system to work together for effective, purposeful interaction with the environment (an adaptive response)
Areas of sensory integration dysfunction can be in
- Registration/modulation
- Motor performance
- Discrimination
Sub categories in registration/modulation
- Ability to receive, process, and modify sensory input
- Tactile hypo, hyper
- Vestibular hypo, hyper
- Proprioception
- Visual
- Auditory
Sub categories in discrimination
- To discern a difference in sensory input
- Tactile
- Auditory
- Visual / Spatial
The Neuro-Maturational Reflex Model theory was popular in the 1920’s to 1970’s, which emphasized specific developmental
sequence and milestones in linear progression is being challenged by newer
theories that development, treatment and outcomes are influenced by
- The environment
- Multi-component systems
- Non-linear progression
- Meaningful task specific skills
- Practice and variation
Define motor control
- involves interaction of many body systems to process sensory info, integrate and execute appropriate motor
responses
What is the process of motor learning
- Perceive need to move
- ID stimulus
- Attend to environmental conditions
- Develop idea for movement
- Motor plan (ROM, strength, tone, sensation)
- Execute selected muscles (with feedback for control)
What are the components of motor control
- Perception
- Cognition
- Arousal
- Sensation
- Flexibility
- Strength
- Tone
- Movement patterns (coordination/balance)
What are the Motor learning strategies
- Practice
- Feedback/feedforward
- Transfer
- Motivation