Barbara Natell – Creative Interventions in Motor Control & Learning: Promoting Posture, Movement, & Fine Motor Skills

Outline

DEFINE MOTOR CONTROL AND MOTOR LEARNING

EVOLUTION OF THEORIES OF MOTOR CONTROL

• Reflex integration
• Hierarchical Theory
• Motor Programming Theories
• Systems Theory
• Dynamical Action Theory
• Ecological Theory

ADDRESSING FACTORS INFLUENCING THE HABILITATION AND REHABILITATION OF MOTOR CONTROL ALONG A FUNCTIONAL CONTINUUM

• The Individual
  • Action
    • Degrees of freedom problem
    • Phase shifts
    • Feedback and feedforward mechanisms
    • Neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and cardiopulmonary
    • Motor maps and plasticity
    • Lab: Physical handling techniques to promote stability, mobility, and fine motor skills
  • Perception
    • Integration of the senses and development of mindfulness
    • Body image, body scheme, and position in space
    • Emotion and the development of “flow”
    • Lab: Design interventions to facilitate increased awareness of body scheme, the orienting response, and awareness of the spatial envelope
  • Cognition
    • Intention, attention, anticipation
    • Timing and rhythm
    • Effects of mental practice
    • Lab: Using music and rhythm to influence enhanced motor control

• The Task: Activity analysis along a functional continuum
  • Mobility
  • Stability
  • Fine motor control
• The Environment
  • Control parameters
  • Grading regulatory and non-regulatory factors
  • Effects of natural environments
  • Lab: Developing strategies for a client-centered environment integrating theoretical perspectives