The total neuromuscular activity of the moment

"Mr. Alexander has done a service to the subject [of the study of reflex and voluntary movement] by insistently treating each act as involving the whole integrated individual, the whole psychophysical man. To take a step is an affair, not of this or that limb solely, but of the total neuromuscular activity of the moment, not least of the head and neck."
Sir Charles Sherrington 1857-1952, Neurophysiologist. Winner, Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1932.

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