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SITTING POSTURE & FUNCTION-GENERAL


Components and sub components of  upper body in siting position


SITTING POSTURE IS GROSS MOTOR SKILL



Ingredients of siting posture-

  1. head control
  2. Proximal stability
  3. hand function 
  4. trunk control


HEAD CONTROL-     


reflex integration (physical development -creeping ,crawling so on)

vision normal

visual function efficiently 

ear normal

hearing function efficiently


PROXIMAL STABILITY-

shoulder range of motion (helps in reaching forward / backward)

shoulder strength (pushups ,retracting object from overhead)

dissociation ( wrist and hand dissociation allows writing smoothly)


TRUNK CONTROL -




spine (sitting erecting,bending twisting movements)

core muscles strength (siting erect in chair)

movement to sides and bending ( when siting in chair  picking up an object bending sideways )


HAND FUNCTION-


grasp (Holding ball)

grip ( opening closing a clip)

in hand manipulation ( handling too many coins in a hand)


BILATERAL INTEGRATION -



(eg.catching ball & stabilizing with one hand while other hand is into writing)






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