When you walk up a flight of stairs, do you have to look at your feet to be sure each will get to the next step? Most of us don’t (an occasional stumble doesn’t count), and for this freedom we can thank our muscle sense. Muscle sense (proprioception) is the brain’s ability to know where […]

Do you like to dance? Most of us do, or we may simply enjoy watching good dancers. The grace and coordination involved in dancing result from the interaction of many of the organ systems, but the one you think of first is probably the muscular system.
There are more than 600 muscles in […]