Let’s get straight to the point: muscles have no memory that controls their activity. Muscle memory (more properly, movement memory<\/u>) resides in the brain, a product of brain-conditioning, i.e., learning.<\/p>\n
Patterns of muscular tension result from that conditioning, acquired by learning and by incidents of injury and\/or stress.<\/p>\n
Think about it: muscles act in patterns of coordination. How can any one muscle control the activity of other muscles? What would be the mechanism? Willpower? Telepathy? And without the ability of a muscle to control other muscles, how could their activity by synchronized in coordinated movement?<\/p>\n
No. Something must centrally control and regulate all muscles to enable coordination, and that something is our nervous systems, the seat of movement memory.<\/p>\n
Whether learning to walk or to dance, if you want to change muscle memory, or movement memory, you have to do it by training your nervous system — and if you’re stuck in a tension pattern from an injury, you have to do it by training your nervous system — by un-learning the dysfunctional pattern and learning a healthy pattern of function, i.e., healthy movement.<\/p>\n
MORE: Let’s get straight to the point: muscles have no memory that controls their activity. Muscle memory (more properly, movement memory) resides in the brain, a product of brain-conditioning, i.e., learning. Patterns of muscular tension result from that conditioning, acquired by learning and by incidents of injury and\/or stress. Think about it: muscles act in patterns … <\/p>\n
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