The text provides a conceptual framework for clinical practice and a practical framework for understanding and examining patients. Preface, Theoretical Framework, Motor Control: Issues and Theories, Motor Learning and Recovery of Function, Physiology of Motor Control, Physiological Basis of Motor Learning and Recovery of Function, Constraints on Motor Control: An Overview of Neurologic Impairments, A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Practice, Postural Control, Normal Postural Control, Development of Postural Control, Aging and Postural Control, Abnormal Postural Control, Clinical Management of the Patient with a Postural Control Disorder, Mobility Functions, Control of Normal Mobility, A Life Span Perspective of Mobility, Abnormal Mobility, Clinical Management of the Patient with a Mobility Disorder, Reach and Grasp and Manipulation, Normal Reach and Grasp and Manipulations, Reach and Grasp and Manipulation: Changes Across the Life Span, Abnormal Reach and Grasp and Manipulation, Clinical Management of the Patient with Reach and Grasp and Manipulation Disorders, References, Index.