Imagine for a moment what life would be like if one had to re-learn an action every time he/she needed to perform it. One would realize that everything would take forever to do and that frustration will occur. One can thank muscle memory for this. Walking, driving, typing, writing, and countless others- one performs these tasks in the “background” of his/her mind. One may think about WHERE one is walking, but one usually does not have to concentrate on HOW to walk. Muscle memory, whether one sees and realizes it, is a very big and important part of one’s everyday life. Often times muscle memory is very subtle, but other times muscle memory is very obvious. For example, one may realize that even after a decade of not riding his or her bike, one will still be able to ride it smoothly without having to go through the learning curve again. Although diverse, these examples all are acquired by repetition until the movements are performed correctly without conscious thought, supporting the old adage that practice makes perfect. Despite its name, the term muscle memory is misleading, because muscles are made up purely of fibers that contract and relax, and therefore muscles don’t have potential for memory. Instead muscle memory lies in the complex neural pathways that are formed in our brains when a task is learned. Although the concept of muscle memory is somewhat understood, the exact functioning of muscle memory remains a mystery in the eyes of medical science but there are many theories that have been conjectured. Conceptually, muscle memory synonymously called motor learning is a type of procedural learning where an action is repeated until the movements required for it can be performed with little conscious effort or attention to a certain stimulus. In a general physiological overview, the nervous system when stimulated controls movement parameters such as: planning, reaction time,