This course is the first of two courses that explores conceptual and practical issues in motor control and motor learning and helps to form an important theoretical foundation for the practice of evidence-based physical therapy. This course will examine historical and contemporary theories of motor control, postural control, information processing and motor learning, as frameworks for understanding goal-directed, functional movement. It will also explore theories of motor control and postural control as explanatory models for changes in movement capabilities. Environmental task demands will be analyzed from the perspectives of motor control, information processing, and motor learning and potential functional constraints to the motor control and postural control systems will be explored using a systems model within the context of an ICF framework.