Occupational performance skills and capacities
Multiple factors in control of occupational performance skills The execution of skills is seen in movements which are the outcome of the integration of muscular and neural components of motor…
Sensory background to movement
Somatosensory system The functions of the somatosensory system are: to monitor the contact of objects and surfaces with the skin, particularly the hands and feet; to report the position of…
Nerve supply of the lower limb
Introduction The first four lumbar nerves form the lumbar plexus, which lies embedded in the psoas muscle in the posterior abdominal wall. A second sacral plexus is formed from the…
Occupational performance
Introduction People are occupational beings. From very early childhood they explore the world around them to discover the ways in which they can learn about, manipulate, utilise and dominate their…
