(Occupational Therapy) Motor planning or “praxis” is planning and carrying out a motor movement or sequence. Motor planning is required in all skilled, intentional actions. Motor planning is required for most daily activities. Occupational therapists address praxis or motor planning as it impacts the participation and/or independence in an individual’s meaningful occupations.

(Physical Therapy) Praxis is planning and sequencing a movement; it’s the ability to think about what you want to do (ideation), how you will do it (motor planning), and then using muscles to do it (execution). To plan and sequence a movement, we need our brain to take in information from all our senses and organize it. After it's organized, we are able to perform a task. A new task is hard until we practice it over and over again. Eventually, a task will be loaded into our brain and we will barely think about doing it. For example: Brushing your teeth or walking up steps. At first, these tasks are hard and look clumsy, but eventually we just do it without thinking.

Belongs to the following disciplines:

• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy