ABSTRACT
Every part of our body is not equal in its adaptive skills for dealing with the world. This means that at some stage in our development it becomes necessary to come to know that we can count on certain parts of our body to fulfill a specific function and other parts to fulfill different functions. Developmentally, this Upper-Lower stage is a time when the baby is training the whole Upper Body to act together and the whole Lower Body to act together. This chapter includes a section on Homologous movement and then has separate sections on the Lower Body and the Upper Body. These separate sections discuss some of the anatomical considerations of the femoral joint and the shoulder joint and some of the specific movement experiences and issues inherent in articulating each area.
