Movement Pulse · Motor learning
Motor learning, movement re-education, and body-awareness research for rehab and daily practice.
Asked to picture a short walk, older adults imagined four seconds. It took them six
Picture yourself walking across the room and back. A new study timed that picture in 85 adults in their seventies, then timed the real walk.
Oct 3, 2026
Your balance got better, but did your sense of where your body is get better too
Fifty one randomised trials, 2,319 people. The gains showed up mostly in sway, strength and pain, and much less often in the position sense the training was named after.
Sep 9, 2026
Why paying attention to one small spot can make you feel something somewhere else
A float tank, a rubber ring on a little finger, and 100 volunteers. Most of what people felt was not where the ring was.
Sep 6, 2026
Why twenty two years of research on imagining movement for back pain still says maybe
Large effects, very low certainty, and a direction that has not changed since 2004. What the arc of imagined movement research actually adds up to.
Aug 29, 2026
The body awareness that fades with age is not the body awareness that predicts function
Four studies across eleven years have quietly taken apart the idea that interoception is one ability sliding down one curve.
Aug 22, 2026
The part of you that learns new movement may not be aging the way you think
Two preregistered experiments compared young and older adults on the same reaching task. The age difference turned up somewhere most people would not expect.
Aug 1, 2026
Why gentle practice is what your body keeps
A July 2026 trial found that pain during practice cut how much of a new movement people still had a day later. Comfortable practice is what settles overnight.
Jul 19, 2026
The science of learning to move, split in two
A new Nature Human Behaviour paper says the study of how we learn to move split into lab and life, and makes the case for putting it back together.
Jul 8, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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