Question

Describe the constraints that may act as rate controllers for specific locomotor activities.

How can a teacher or therapist manipulate task constraints to help a child acquire the skill of galloping?

What are some of the ways in which humans can move from place to place (without equipment)? Which ones are not currently observed in adults? Why are these locomotor forms rarely used?

What movement characteristics might you see in an older adult who is galloping? Why?

Answer 1

Ans.) Strength and balance are the constraints that may act as rate controllers for specific locomotor activities. These things are associated with increased stability and balance, such as short steps with little leg or hip extensions.
A teacher or therapist manipulate task constraints to help a child acquire the skill of galloping by plying the game of simple circle time. It will help children practice galloping skills as well as many other gross motor skills and is also an imaginative game that can exercise creativity.

Humans can move from place to place by walking, running, sprinting and galloping whereas small children can also crawl to move from one place to other.

A fast sprinting is not currently observed in adults due to reduced muscular output from the hip rather than from knee limits the sprinting performance in older age.