KP161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Muscular System, Skeleton, Motor Program
28 Mar 2016
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Degrees of freedom: the human body affords abundant action of possibilities, take into consideration the amount of movement possible. Process of organizing a system"s available degrees of freedom into a efficient movement pattern to achieve a specific goal. When a person is uncoordinated it means that they cannot produce a movement with all segments working together. The amount of force you need or the direction you need to move (reaching or grasping can be done with little or a lot of force) Coordination for picking up a heavy vs light cup is the same but the control is different because you need to lift for if you pick up the heavy cup. Ballet dancers can manipulate the perception of control (making something hella hard look super easy: degrees of freedom problem. How we coordinate and control the available degrees of freedom to produce a movement is the degrees of freedom problem.
