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Biomechanics ✔✔A study that uses principles of physics to quantitatively study how forces interact within a living body.
Force ✔✔An influence applied by one object to another, which results in an acceleration or deceleration of the second object.
Rotary motion ✔✔Movement of the bones around the joints.
Torque ✔✔A force that produces rotation.
Agonist ✔✔Muscles that act as prime movers.
Antagonists ✔✔Muscles that act in direct opposition to prime movers.
Synergists ✔✔Muscles that assist prime movers during functional movement patterns.
Stabilizers ✔✔Muscles that support or stabilize the body while the prime movers and the synergists perform the movement patterns.
Motor Behavior ✔✔The human movement system's response to internal and external environmental stimuli.
Motor Control ✔✔The study of posture and movements with the involved structures and mechanisms used by the central nervous system to assimilate and integrate sensory information with previous experiences.
Motor Learning ✔✔Integration of motor control processes through practice and experience leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to produce skilled movements.
Motor Development ✔✔The change in motor behavior with time throughout the lifespan.
Internal (sensory) feedback ✔✔The process by which sensory information is used by the body via length-tension relationships, force-couple relationships, and arthrokinematics to monitor movement and the environment.
Global musculature system ✔✔Muscles responsible predominantly for movement, consisting of more superficial musculature that originates from the pelvis to the rib cage, the lower extremities, or both.
Sensory information ✔✔The data that the central nervous system receives from sensory receptors to determine such things as the body's position in space and limb orientation, as well as information about the environment, temperature, texture, and so forth.
Sensation ✔✔A process whereby sensory information is received by the receptor and transferred either to the spinal cord for reflexive motor behavior or to higher cortical areas for processing, or both.
Perception ✔✔The integration of sensory information with past experiences or memories.
Sensorimotor integration ✔✔The ability of the central nervous system to gather and interpret sensory information to execute the proper motor response.
Feedback ✔✔The utilization of sensory information and sensorimotor integration to aid in the development of permanent neural representations of motor patterns for efficient movement.
