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Optimal search strategies for optimal motor solutions: Self-determination or informed guidance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

C. B. Walter
Affiliation:
School of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608-1516. chartes.b.walter@ulc.edu
K. Kamm
Affiliation:
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608-1516.

Abstract

Impoverished resources may direct the pathologic central nervous system toward local solutions during ontogeny. The resultant motor behavior can be systemically optimal without being functionally optimal. Therapeutic intervention should focus on facilitating function (rather than “normalcy”) by encouraging behavioral exploration through appropriate combinations of task and environmental variations with respect to individual capabilities. Some health professions have already adopted this philosophy.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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