A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain

The interesting thing about this exercise is the transitional movements produced by the mere intention to reach or get a view of something are often smoother, more integrated, and more coordinated than the same movements would be if we intended to perform them on purpose. This highlights the fact that babies do not learn movement by trying to learn

if the nervous system thinks a particular movement is threatening, it can simply prevent us from making it.

Nociception means the transmission of sensory information about noxious stimuli from the body to the brain. We can think of nociception as the process of detecting danger and sending danger signals to the brain. It proceeds through several stages as described below.

it may be that practicing control of movement could help with control of emotion.

7 First, excess stiffness at one joint will cause compensatory hypermobility at an adjacent joint that is a team member in the same multisegmental movement. Second, these patterns are to some extent predictable.

Pain is a real feeling, but that feeling does not necessarily reflect real damage in the body. Further, although pain depends on brain activity for its existence, this does not mean you can simply think pain away or that pain is your fault. Unfortunately, the processes which create pain are mostly unconscious and outside your control.

Inhibition is a higher-order skill than activation.

our ability to control movement is intimately related to our ability to perceive it.

Fluency is judged by variability not just precision.