Motor behavior : connecting mind and body for optimal performance /
Jeffrey C. Ives.
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.
- xi, 328 p. : ill., charts, diagrs., photos.
Includes bibliographical references.
ntroduction to motor behavior and the mind-body connection -- Neural mechanisms in planning and initiating movement -- Peripheral neuromuscular mechanisms in executing movement -- Peripheral sensory systems in monitoring movement -- Movement models -- Understanding motor skill and motor abilities -- Learning and the development of expertise -- Information processing and motor skill performance -- Practice and instruction -- Muscle tone and postural control -- Orthopedic injury, rehabilitation, and prehabilitation -- Strength, power, speed, and agility.