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Posturo-kinetic capacity in the disabled

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Simon Bouisset
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiologie du Mouvement, ERS-CNRS 102, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay. France. lpm@citi2.fr

Abstract

“Normal movements” in atypical populations address the question of postural control: Voluntary movement is a perturbation of body balance and cannot be executed without a convenient counterperturbation. Despite a change in the postural program in relation to the impairment (Parkinson's disease, paraplegia), the performance level is decreased. Movements are not “normal,” owing to a reduction in posturokinetic capacity.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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