Motor Control bridges the gap between current motor control research and its applications to clinical practice. It prepares therapists to examine and treat patients with problems related to balance, mobility, and upper extremity function, based on the best available evidence supporting clinical practice.

Motor Control, Third edition features a new two-colour design with an updated art program. This edition provides the latest research findings and their clinical applications in postural control, mobility, and upper extremity function.

Drawings, charts, tables, and photographs are also included to clarify postural control and functional mobility, and laboratory activities and case studies are provided to reinforce key concepts.

Contents

Theoretical Framework

1. Motor control: issues and theories
2. Motor learning and recovery of function
3. Physiology of motor control
4. Physiological basis of motor learning and recovery of function
5. Constraints on motor control: an overview of neurological impairments
6. A conceptual framework for clinical practice

Postural Control

7. Normal postural control
8. Development of postural control
9. Aging and postural control
10. Abnormal postural control
11. Clinical management of the patient with a postural control disorder

Mobility Function

12. Control of normal mobility
13. A life span perspective of mobility
14. Abnormal mobility
15. Clinical management of the patient with a mobility disorder

Reach, Grasp, and Manipulation

16. Normal reach, grasp, and manipulation
17. Reach, grasp, and manipulation: changes across the life span
18. Abnormal reach, grasp, and manipulation
19. Clinical management of the patient with reach, grasp, and manipulation disorders

Index

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