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Ives, Jeffrey C.

Motor behavior : connecting mind and body for optimal performance / Jeffrey C. Ives. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2014. - xi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to motor behavior and the mind-body connection -- Neural mechanisms in planning and initiating movement -- Peripheral neuromuscular mechanisms in executing movement -- Peripheral sensory systems in monitoring movement -- Movement models -- Understanding motor skill and motor abilities -- Learning and the development of expertise -- Information processing and motor skill performance -- Practice and instruction -- Muscle tone and postural control -- Orthopedic injury, rehabilitation, and prehabilitation -- Strength, power, speed, and agility.

General Education

ISBN: 9781451175899 (hbk.) 1451175892 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2012038287

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Athletic Performance--physiology.
Psychomotor Performance.
Athletic Performance--psychology.
Movement.

LC Class. No.: RC 1235 / .Iv94 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 612.7/6

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WE 104