Introduction. Plans, Strategies, and Actions

Abstract

The most remarkable thing about moving is how easy it is. It is only when we watch someone who cannot move, perhaps after a stroke, or someone whose movements continually go wrong, like the contortions of a child with athetoid cerebral palsy, that we are reminded of the problems of movement control with which our nervous system copes so uncomplainingly. This book will deal with voluntary movements of the limbs and their disorders, which are particularly well illustrated by movements of the human hand and arm.