Assignment task: Individual project presentations should be between 20 to 25 slides (not including title and reference slides). Presentations will be posted to the class in the discussion forum designated for the specific project option. Subject line of posting should be appropriate based on the topic of your project.
The criteria for grading will be (a) your demonstrated understanding of the subject matter, (b) your understanding of the issue demonstrated through a practitioner's perspective, as well as critical thinking in your analysis, and (c) the professional quality of your presentation (e.g., organization, clarity, support of arguments, and staying within the guidelines).
This project consists of a detailed analysis of a single human movement. The movement you or your group select is up to you. It may be a movement that is a sport skill, or an exercise, or a movement that is a part of daily living.
Power Project Material Outline:
Description of the skill:
- Name and primary purpose
- Brief word description of skill
- Classification on simultaneous-sequential continuum
- Rationale for this classification
Description of movement phases
- Starting position
- Phases to be included
- Brief description of each phase
- starting point
- motion included
- ending point
Anatomical analysis (in chart form)
- Joint
- Joint motion
- Segment moved
- Plane and axis
- Force producing motion
- Prime movers
- Contraction type
Neuromuscular
- Faciliatory reflexes
- Description of reflex
- Application of reflex in this movement
- Inhibitory reflexes
- Description of reflex
- Effect of the reflex on this movement
- Conclusion