Motor learning is a field of study that has essentially been ignored by the sports-medi-
cine and rehabilitation field. It is an area of research that emerged from the desire for efficiency in assembly-line tasks during the evaluating hand movement and limb position-ing 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
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but has evolved to focus on the study of any skill acquisition. The investigation of upper extremity skill acquisi-tion predominates the motor-learning litera-ture. There is a paucity of literature on skill ac-quisition for the lower extremity and virtually no studies on relearning motor skills after injury. The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the field of motor learning and