Motor learning is a field of study that has essentially been ignored by the sports-medicine and rehabilitation field. It is an area of research that emerged from the desire for efficiency in assemblyine tasks during theevaluating hand movement and limb positioning for optimal work efficiency. Shortly there-after, between 1910 and 1950, a related yet unique area of study, motor control, developed. Through animal studies, Sherrington1 provided industrial revolution information on the muscle spindle, opening