TY - JOUR
T1 - Movement variability and the use of nonlinear tools
T2 - Principles to guide physical therapist practice
AU - Harbourne, Regina T.
AU - Stergiou, Nicholas
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - Fields studying movement generation, including robotics, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, utilize concepts and tools related to the pervasiveness of variability in biological systems. The concepts of variability and complexity and the nonlinear tools used to measure these concepts open new vistas for physical therapist practice and research in movement dysfunction of all types. Because mounting evidence supports the necessity of variability for health and functional movement, this perspective article argues for changes in the way therapists view variability, both in theory and in action. By providing clinical examples, as well as applying existing knowledge about complex systems, the aim of this article is to create a springboard for new directions in physical therapist research and practice.
AB - Fields studying movement generation, including robotics, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, utilize concepts and tools related to the pervasiveness of variability in biological systems. The concepts of variability and complexity and the nonlinear tools used to measure these concepts open new vistas for physical therapist practice and research in movement dysfunction of all types. Because mounting evidence supports the necessity of variability for health and functional movement, this perspective article argues for changes in the way therapists view variability, both in theory and in action. By providing clinical examples, as well as applying existing knowledge about complex systems, the aim of this article is to create a springboard for new directions in physical therapist research and practice.
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U2 - 10.2522/ptj.20080130
DO - 10.2522/ptj.20080130
M3 - Review article
C2 - 19168711
AN - SCOPUS:61849104121
VL - 89
SP - 267
EP - 282
JO - Physical Therapy
JF - Physical Therapy
SN - 0031-9023
IS - 3
ER -