Scientific foundations
Theories organize questions. Evidence revises them.
Movement Systems connects dynamical systems, constraints, complex adaptive systems, ecological approaches, biomechanics, and physical therapy movement-system reasoning without treating them as interchangeable.
Foundation records
Make the reasoning behind the research inspectable.
A foundation record connects definitions and predictions to observable implications, alternative explanations, measurement requirements, and limits on inference.
The current source-grounded records develop rehabilitation and physical therapy implications from Holt, Wagenaar, and Saltzman (2010) and Guccione, Neville, and George (2019). No theoretical vocabulary substitutes for construct definition, experimental manipulation, or validation.
Dynamic Systems, Constraints, and Dynamic Resources
How movement organization and available mechanical and physiological resources interact with organismic, task, and environmental constraints.
Read the foundation Source-groundedMovement Solutions, Optimization, and PT Diagnosis
Purposeful movement, bounded variability, context-dependent optimization, prognosis, and changing movement-system diagnoses.
Read the foundation Developing synthesisAttain, Sustain, Maintain
A hierarchical framework for functional capability across organizational levels, tasks, constraints, and timescales.
Read the foundation Existing foundationMovement as an emergent phenomenon
The current theory scaffold for movement arising from interacting person, task, environmental, physiological, neural, mechanical, and behavioral processes.
Read the foundationPlanned records
Build the foundation incrementally.
These records remain proposed until their definitions, principal sources, predictions, measurement implications, and scientific limits are reviewed.
- 01Coordination dynamicsProposed
- 02Complex adaptive systemsProposed
- 03Ecological psychologyProposed
- 04Ecological dynamics and constraints-led approachesProposed
- 05Scientific inference and causationProposed