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J Gordon, EdD, PT, is Assistant Professor, Program in Physical Therapy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032

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Since Keele's seminal paper¹ in 1968, the term "motor program" has become part of the vocabulary of theorists in motor control and motor learning, and, as Morris et al point out, the term has also become widespread in the clinical literature. Unfortunately, despite considerable theoretical development in the concept of a motor program (reviewed nicely by Morris et al), the term is still frequently used in its original formulation. That is, it is used to imply that when we learn a movement skill, we learn a specific set of muscle contractions. As Morris et al demonstrate, this assumption is simply untenable. Even small changes in the context in which an action takes place will radically affect the magnitudes and timing of muscle contractions necessary to carry out the act, and even which muscles will contract....

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