ABSTRACT
Movement is a word that expresses a great many different ideas. Economists talk of the free movement of goods and services; musicians talk of musical movements; people “move on” when they leave a long-held sadness behind; and people literally move in their hundreds through emigration and diaspora; there are labor movements and civil rights movements, clock movements, and biological movements like diffusion and osmosis. Given this diversity of meaning, it is reasonable to ask why it is that in the
Introduction ........................................................................ 97 Limits of Current Biomedical Approach to Rehabilitation ......................................................................99 Moving Language .............................................................100 Multiple Movements ........................................................ 105 Movement as a (Postmodern) Metaphor ...................... 106 Discussion ......................................................................... 112 Conclusion ........................................................................ 113 Acknowledgments ............................................................ 113 References .......................................................................... 113
field of physical rehabilitation, we have taken such a narrow view of movement?* If we acknowledge all the possible ways that we might think about movement, why have we restricted our views of the phenomenon to the language of levers and forces, flexion and extension, and the physical displacement of a body from point A to point B? Where did all the other meanings of movement go?
