Relevance of Motor Control

• What is motor control?

  • The study of the nature and control of movement
  • A behavioural understanding of “the ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement”
• Why is motor control important?

  • Allows to understand and explain:
  • motor skill performance
  • constraints
  • limits
  • potential
  • deficits
  • etc
• Why is motor control important - enables practitioner to:

  • identify performance problems
  • predict effectiveness of intervention strategies
  • Develop intervention strategies to help overcome performance problems
  • Create new intervention strategies
  • Develop systematic approach to help person increase skill performance capabilities
  • Evaluate effectiveness of intervention strategies