Dr. Knight's Insights

When we think about movement, we often focus on the central nervous system sending excitatory signals (turning things on) through the alph...

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about a special type of proprioceptive receptor called muscle spindles.  Muscle spindles detect changes i...

It seems that this football season, especially last weekend, has seen a very high number of neck injuries.  Devon Walker, a defensive back...

It is hard to believe that today is the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.  I thought I would do something different with ...

When we think about muscles, we often think about the contractile components, actin and myosin, that attach and slide past each other, cau...

This semester, I am teaching a class called "Neural Control of Human Movement."  This is a very challenging course for both mys...

I was talking with my Dad the other evening about St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter and his return from surgery to relieve hi...