Student: Ough, I hurt my left knee running this week. And it’s hard not to be limping. It’s sorta like walking on a split-belt treadmill! Professor: Well, another recent  study from Bastian and colleagues gives us more information on limping. Specifically, Malone and Bastian (2010) studied the effects of “conscious correction versus distraction” upon ‘limping’ […]

Student: How young can a child be…. Well, how well coordinated can a child be so it can adapt to walking on a split-belt treadmill? Ahh, with a minimum of assistance? Professor: Musselman et al. (2011) determined that children, older than 8.5 months, were the successful participant in thein study. Below is their Fig. 1 […]

Eh! What? Motor programs operated by the brainstem? Okay, my brainstem is the extension of my spinal cord. And I’m guessing this means just my brainstem selects each motor program I use? Well, the short answer is Yes and No. Let’s  allow the experts to explain! First, in their paper entitled, ” Is there a brainstem substrate […]

Before I was retired, I used to take the bus to work. One day, when I am walking toward the bus stop, I saw my bus already pulling up to my bus stop, and I noticed, in a moment later, that I was off and running toward it. Later on, I realized in that brief […]