title: Melior Via: A Better Way to Integrate and Restore Movement into Orthopedic Rehabilitation.
abstract: Movement develops uniformly and predictably in all normal newborns and infants. The genetic roadmap for every complex movement that will ever be performed is written intoevery infant's nervous system and develops from these basic ingredients: unlimited mobility, an undeveloped nervous system, primal reflexes, and breathing. Following an injury, surgery or trauma, restoring movement is the same as learning movement only with slightly differing parameters. The principles, however, remain the same and can be used to improve orthopedic rehabilitation.
authors.forename: Brandon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hetzler
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mahaffey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009985:Orthopedics; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D012046:Rehabilitation