In rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), ablation of the premotor and supplementary motor areas and the adjoining rostral half of the precentral gyrus impairs the capacity of the contralateral arm to reach around a transparent obstacle to a visible food reward, and results in a tendency of this arm to reach around a transparent obstacle to a visible food reward, and results in a tendency of this arm to reach straight to where the food is visible. This may reflect a disinhibition of brainstem pathways which steer the arm and hand straight ot a visual target.
• The way that rehabilitation services are organized and delivered for people with lifelong impairments needs to be re-considered. • Frontloading rehabilitation in childhood does not meet the long term needs of children growing up and growing older with physical impairments. As they grow up and grow older, they lose many of the gains they achieved in rehabilitation yet they have nowhere to turn to receive rehabilitation for their aging bodies. • The focus on normalizing function in childhood may only serve to emphasize the child’s lack of ablebodiedness to the detriment of their sense of self and wellbeing.
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