Environment

• Environment

  • Movement is influenced by features in the environment
• Integrated Systems Theory - Environment

  A) regulatory

  B) nonregulatory

  
• Environment

  • Regulatory
  • Things that shape the movement itself – movement must conform to these influences
  • Non-regulatory
  • Things that may influence movement but do not directly alter it
• Environmental hierarchy (increasing in complexity)

  • predictable environment
  • less predictable environment
  • very unpredictable environment
• What relevance is this to physios?

  • Must consider how the environment interacts with the individual and task
  • Remove environmental influences which are negative to the specific focus
  • Use the environment to create appropriate challenges
  • Make your rehabilitation ‘real’ by creating or using multiple environments
• Environment - Regulatory:

  • Things that shape the movement itself – movement must conform to these influences
• Environment - Non-regulatory:

  • Things that may influence movement but do not directly alter it