Movement

Motor reactivation

A muscle switching back on properly after an injury or an operation. When you hurt something, your nervous system turns the muscles around it down — useful protection while you heal, and a problem afterwards, because nothing turns them back up on their own. The muscle is not damaged; it is inhibited, which is a different thing with a different fix, and it does not respond to being loaded harder so much as to being asked at the right moment. Good looks like: the muscle firing on time and at full strength in the movement it belongs to, not just when you concentrate on it. This is why pain leaving is not the same as being better, and why the same injury keeps coming back.