Which option is a recovery intervention for ataxia according to the material?

• A. Use supports and targets to guide movement
• B. Focus on error augmentation to drive motor learning
• C. May help improve postural stability
• D. May improve single joint movement control

Answer: (B)

Recovery-focused rehab for ataxia uses strategies that promote motor relearning by driving the nervous system to recalibrate with practice. Error augmentation does exactly that: by making the movement error more noticeable, the system receives a stronger signal to adjust and refine motor commands. This engagement of adaptive learning helps rebuild coordinated control, which is the aim of recovery interventions in ataxia.

Other approaches described tend to be more compensatory or narrow in scope. Using supports and guiding movement provides external aid that can reduce the need to correct errors, which is more about compensatory strategies than restoring motor function. While improving postural stability or single-joint control can be part of rehabilitation, they don’t specifically emphasize the error-driven learning process that promotes true recovery.