Category: M

  • Muscle balance

    Balance in strength and flexibility in muscle pairs allowing for proper posture and stability in the body.  

  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)

    A chronic, potentially debilitating disease that affects the central nervous system relating to scarring of the myelin sheaths surrounding the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. A CNS disease that decreases myelin, a sheath on the nerve fibers that is key to fast nerve transmission, thereby disrupting electrical impulses to and from the brain.…

  • Multiarticulate

    A muscle that spans three or more joints.  

  • Movement or step cue

    A transitional cue that expresses the basic movement that is being performed.  

  • Motor unit

    Consists of one motor neuron and all of the myofibrils it stimulates. A motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates. A somatic motor neuron and all the muscle cells it innervates. Combination of a motor neuron and the muscle fibers that it innervates.  

  • Motor neurons

    Specialized nerve cells that innervate muscle fibers. Nerve cell that comprises the pathway between the brain or spinal cord and an effector organ a muscle or gland. A group of rare, progressive disorders in which the nerves that control muscle activity degenerate within the brain and spinal cord. This results in muscle wasting (atrophy) and…

  • Motivational cue

    A verbal or nonverbal signal used for encouragement and reinforcement.  

  • Motion

    Motion occurs when a person changes his or her location in space. In parliamentary procedure, a formal proposal offered by a member of a deliberative body. Waste products evacuated in a bowel movement, also called faeces or stool. A change of place or position; movement.  

  • Monounsaturated

    When there is only one point of unsaturation in the chain of fatty acids. High concentrations of unsaturated fat in canola, peanut, and olive oils. A term describing a type of unsaturated fatty acid present in specific food oils, like olive oil and groundnut oil.  

  • Moments

    The product of the force and the distance of the force from the moving joints; torque.