TASK ORIENTED APPROACH

 TASK ORIENTED APPROACH 

ASSUMPTIONS

• Movement is controlled by the individual's goals 
• A wide variety of movement patterns can be accomplished with a task 
• Facilitation of normal movements is not necessary. 
• The nervous system adapts continually to its environment and musculoskeletal constraints.
• The nervous system is not a passive recipient of sensory stimuli but actively seeks to control its own perception and actions.
• Voluntary and automatic control systems are interrelated.
• Multiple system involvement results in movement.
• The nervous system is exposed to its own specific environment.
• The nervous system seeks to accomplish goals with remaining systems after injury.

TREATMENT PRINCIPLES

• The goal of therapy is to teach clients to accomplish goals for functional tasks.
• Therapists do not treat or limit therapy to one normal movement pattern.
• Therapists try to teach the nervous system how to solve different motor problems by practicing in a wide variety of situations
• The therapists seeks to manipulate these environmental and musculoskeletal systems to allow for efficient, purposeful behavior.
• The client needs to practice motor behaviors motivated  by the goal of task accomplishment 
• Clients are encouraged to assist voluntarily in accomplishing a motor behavior with therapist's encouragement.
• The therapist and the environment provide feedback.
• The therapist must design interventions in which practice of controlled movements is outside structured sessions 
• The therapist helps the patient to identify and use compensatory strategies.