The comparison of motor performance between part and whole tasks in elderly persons.
OBJECTIVE: When teaching clients a multistep functional task, therapists tend to break down the task into part tasks with discrete movements. The purpose of this study was to compare the kinematic performance between part and whole tasks in elderly persons. METHOD: A counterbalanced repeated-measure...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 62 - 68 |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Jan/Feb2001
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