Rethinking The Science of Muscle Tone - Part I

This month’s blog marks our 50th episode! ASO team member Erica Donnison interviews Dr. Tim Cacciatore about his paper 'Central Mechanisms of Muscle Tone Regulation: Implications for Pain and Performance.'

Tim explores how muscle tone regulation impacts balance, movement, and coordination, clarifying misconceptions and highlighting its relevance to AT teachers, researchers, and clinicians. This is part one of a two-part discussion—stay tuned for more!

The paper is open-access and can be downloaded for free at Frontiers in Neuroscience:

Note: This video mentions historical neuroscience studies involving animal research. As with all neuroscience research, this paper synthesizes past findings—however, no animal studies were conducted by Tim and colleagues in their work on rethinking muscle tone in relation to the Alexander Technique.