Postural tests for formal assessment
A formal assessment of posture includes an assessment of sitting, standing, and lying. Pain is... Read More
Case Studies
Now that you understand how to develop an ecological task analysis and have an understanding... Read More
Motor Learning
Motor learning is a subdiscipline of motor behavior that examines how people acquire motor skills.... Read More
Gold Standards Versus Variability
Instructors of physical skills sometimes teach with a template in mind (e.g., the movement pattern... Read More
Exercise Genomics
The rapidly expanding field of exercise genomics advances our understanding of the preventive and therapeutic... Read More
Anaerobic Testing
To accurately determine baseline status in order to guide exercise prescription development and determine whether... Read More
Using Body Composition Methods to Identify Cachexia in Cancer...
Cachexia is not simply weight loss. In some cancer populations, such as patients with early-stage... Read More
Using constant error and variable error
An additional aspect of error scores is important from the point of view not only... Read More
Visual proprioception
Figure 5.4 illustrates one of James Gibson’s concepts about how changes in head position contribute... Read More