Content area
Full Text
Motor Control: Theory and Practical Applications, ed 2 Shumway-Cook A, Wollacott MH. Baltimore, MD 20201-2436, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001, hardcover, 624 pp, illus, ISBN: 0-683-30643-X, $52.95.
The second edition of this textbook expands on the information in the previous edition and addresses the text's purpose of linking theory (primarily systems theory of motor control) to the clinical examination and treatment of patients with motor control disorders. The authors characterize their approach to motor control dysfunction as a taskoriented approach, and its concepts are applicable to both physical therapy and occupational therapy interventions. The 19 chapters in the text are divided into 4 sections-theoretical framework, control of posture and balance, mobility, and upper-extremity manipulation functions. Each section follows a similar format that progresses from content on normal motor control, to age-related issues, to information on abnormal function, to clinical applications. Each chapter begins with a topical outline. References to the research literature are incorporated throughout the text. The summary at the end of each chapter enumerates the key points.
In...