Issn Print: 0195-9131
Publication Date: 1997/05/01
Muscles to the Max: Motor Control in Performance, Injury, and Rehabilitation 4
W B Kibler; T R Nichols; W Garrett; J Young; T J Chandler
Excerpt
This symposium will focus on the organization of motor control patterns that allow maximum performance, how these patterns are altered in athletic injury and subsequent treatment, and how rehabilitation and conditioning should be organized to re-establish and maximize these patterns. The initial lecture will highlight the three dimensional organization of motor firing into length dependent and force dependent patterns, and will discuss the role that reciprocal inhibition plays in controlling joint pertubation with low levels of muscle activity. The next lectures will introduce application of these concepts to clinical situations in the legs, arms, and back, with specific examples of motor control activity in performance of skills (kicking, running, and throwing) and how alterations due to injury can be identified and rehabilitated. Conditioning programs that emphasize normal motor control will be demonstrated.
At the end of the symposium, participants should understand that motor control organization forms the neurologic basis for performance, that it may be altered in injury, that restoration of motor control is essential in the rehabilitation process, and that conditioning is more efficacious when done in line with motor control principles.
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