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.
