Motor Control: Translating Research Into Clinical Applications 3rd Edition #16451

Motor Control: Translating Research Into Clinical Applications 3/e

Author(s): Anne Shumway-Cook, PT, PhD; Marjorie Hines Woollacott , PhD;

Summary:
Motor Control is the only text to bridge the gap between current motor control research and its applications to clinical practice. The text 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. The 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
Motor Control: Issues and Theories
Motor Learning and Recovery of Function
Physiology of Motor Control
Physiological Basis of Motor Learning and Recovery of Function
Constraints on Motor Control: An Overview of Neurologic Impairments
A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Practice

POSTURAL CONTROL
Normal Postural Control
Development of Postural Control
Aging and Postural Control
Abnormal Postural Control
Clinical Management of the Patient with a Postural Control Disorder

MOBILITY FUNCTION
Control of Normal Mobility
A Life Span Perspective of Mobility
Abnormal Mobility
Clinical Management of the Patient with a Mobility Disorder

REACH, GRASP, AND MANIPULATION
Normal Reach, Grasp, and Manipulation
Reach, Grasp, and Manipulation: Changes Across the Life Span
Abnormal Reach, Grasp, and Manipulation
Clinical Management of the Patient with Reach, Grasp, and Manipulation Disorders
References

Pub Date: 15 Aug 2006
Media Type: Book
Pages: 576