Patterns of Facilitation
摘要
Normal functional motion is composed of mass movement patterns of the limbs and the synergistic trunk muscles (Kabat 1960) (◘ Fig. 5.1). The motor cortex generates and organizes these movement patterns, and the individual cannot voluntarily contract a muscle from the movement pattern to which it belongs. This does not mean that we cannot contract muscles individually, but our discrete motions spring from the mass patterns (Beevor 1978; Kabat 1950). These synergistic muscle combinations form the PNF patterns of facilitation.