The simple definition of tone as the resistance to passive stretch is physiologically a complex
interlaced network encompassing neural circuits in the brain, spinal cord, and muscle …

This review addresses the possible structural and functional adaptations of the postural
function to motor experience. Evidence suggests that postural performance and strategy …

Drawing on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics, Neuromechanics of Human
Movement, Fourth Edition, explores how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles …

This review addresses the effects of fatiguing general muscular exercise (involving the
whole body) and fatiguing local muscular exercise (involving a particular muscular group) …

If exercises are performed to increase muscle strength on one side of the body, voluntary
strength can increase on the contralateral side. This effect, termed the contralateral strength …

Resistance training can be defined as the act of repeated voluntary muscle contractions
against a resistance greater than those normally encountered in activities of daily living …

The ease with which we perform tasks such as opening the lid of a jar, in which the two
hands execute quite different actions, belies the fact that there is a strong tendency for the …

Cross education is the process whereby training of one limb gives rise to enhancements in
the performance of the opposite, untrained limb. Despite interest in this phenomenon having …

Performance of a unimanual hand motor task results in functional changes in both primary
motor cortices (M1ipsilateral and M1contralateral). The neuronal mechanisms controlling the …

Although it has long been known that practicing a motor task with one limb can improve
performance with the limb opposite, the mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we …