Hierarchy of the control of the motor system.

For an adequate assessment of the motor system we must know that there is a hierarchy of prerequisites, necessary to be able to evaluate the successive levels of complexity of the motor system, particularly in children.

• Assessment of motor development. The first step is to adequately focus on the chronobiology of motor development and its proportion and adequacy to general development.
• Assessment of muscle tone.
• Assessment of the pyramidal system.
• Assessment of the cerebellar system.
• Assessment of the extrapyramidal system (base ganglia).
• Assessment of voluntary (cortical) motor skills. Motor planning and goal-directed motor skills (task-oriented).