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Encyclopedia > Motor skills

A motor skill is a skill required for proper usage of skeletal muscles. Besides muscles, these depend upon the proper functioning of the brain, skeleton, joints, and nervous system. Most motor skills are learned in early childhood. Disabillities can affect motor skills.


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Motor skills disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (566 words)
Motor skills disorder (also known as motor coordination disorder or motor dyspraxia) is a human developmental disorder and is neurological in origin.
Motor Dyspraxia is a result of weak or disorganised connections in the brain, which then translates to trouble with motor coordination.
Children with motor skills disorder often suffer low self-esteem resulting from poor ability at sports and teasing by other children.
motor_skills (546 words)
The goal of this research project is to record the development of motor skills, from a longitudinal perspective, from pre-school age to early adulthood.
Exact knowledge about the developments of and influencing factors for motor skills during a lifespan are especially necessary in today’s movement-deprived society, in order to be able to prevent the increasing number of health issues stemming from physical activity deficiency such as obesity, cardio-vascular diseases, weak posture and osteoporosis.
The focus of the study is the examination of the stability and predictability of the basic motor skills of strength, speed, endurance, coordination and flexibility throughout childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.
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