The Effect of Kinesthetic Stimulation on Acquisition and Retention of a Gross Motor Skill

Canadian occupational therapists aspire to be client-centred. As a profession we continue to debate what this means. The question of how to be client-centred becomes more acute when the client has cognitive deficits, and capacity, including the legal right to consent to treatment, is called into question. Further, in current literature and law, capacity is described as situational (i.e., specific to the time, circumstances and question being asked) and thus, difficult to determine. In this discussion, the author will explore two strategies, graded decision-making and advocacy, for practicing in a client-centred manner with cognitively impaired clients.

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Is More Always Better? Optimal Amounts of Feedback in Learning to Calibrate Sensory Awareness

Jarus¹

1995

The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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Contrary to predictions from early views on motor learning, recent studies have shown that reduction of the relative frequency of feedback regarding the success in achieving a goal (knowledge of results = KR) depresses performance during acquisition; whereas, in retention and transfer tests, an inverse relationship is found between performance and KR. The present study investigated the effect of reduced relative frequency of KR on the ability to calibrate kinesthetic awareness of 90 healthy young and older subjects. Across three task versions of kinesthetic acuity, practice conditions of 100% KR were compared with 33% equally spread and 33% faded practice conditions. The results of this study show that reduced relative KR frequency depressed the performance of the older subjects but raised the performance of the younger subjects in the acquisition phase. In retention, reduced relative KR frequency produced more effective performance than 100% KR, with no difference between the two age groups or the two 33% KR frequency conditions. These results seem to imply that treatment of patients on the ability to calibrate sensory awareness is benefited by providing these patients with KR at a low frequency.

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The Effect of Kinesthetic Stimulation on Acquisition and Retention of a Gross Motor Skill

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