Motor Control
“The process of initiating, directing, and grading purposeful voluntary movement”
Motor Control Theories include production of reflexive, automatic, adaptive, and voluntary movements and the performance of efficient, coordinated, goal-directed movement patterns which involve multiple body systems (input, output, and central processing) and multiple levels within the nervous system.
As therapists we can change the environment, or the task in such a way as to enable our oatients to achieve their goals.
Motor Learning
” The process of acquiring a skill by which the learner, through practice and assimilation, refines and makes automatic the desired movement”.
“An internal neurologic process that results in the ability to produce a new motor task”
Motor learning is a “set of internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to relatively permanent changes in the capability for skilled behavior.” In other words, motor learning is when complex processes in the brain occur in response to practice or experience of a certain skill resulting in changes in the central nervous system that allow for production of a new motor skill.
Presentations
- Motor Learning. Presentation by Dr. Duane “Spike” Millslagle, Associate Professor Exercise Science, University of Minnesota
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dmillsla/courses/motorlearning/documents/Chapter04.pdf
- Essential Concepts of Motor Control & Learning: Presentation by DM McKeough.
http://slideplayer.com/slide/1498230/
Supporting Articles/text
- Latash, M. L., Levin, M. F., Scholz, J. P., & Schöner, G. (2010). Motor Control Theories and Their Applications. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 46(6), 382–392.
- Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing. (2012). Retrieved March 11 2016 from http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/motor+learning
- Physiopedia