Dr. Knight's Insights

If you watch college football, then you have probably seen or heard about the injury to South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore.  ...

One type of pre-programmed reaction is the corrective stumbling reaction.  Some times when we are walking, we encounter some type of obsta...

We have recently discussed reflexes and their role in movement.  We said reflexes are an involuntary response to a specific stimulus.  One e...

At the end of August, I wrote a post talking about thoracic outlet syndrome and the surgery Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter underwent t...

What is a reflex?  If you ask 10 different people, there is a good chance you will get 10 different answers.  Many different and imperfect...

Roger Goodell and the NFL have supposedly started to "crack" down on player safety.  This includes larger fines for hitting defe...

Last week we talked about reciprocal inhibition, in which the CNS would inhibit the muscles of the one muscle group because their shorteni...