Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...

Rock climbing has increased in popularity as both a recreational physical activity and a competitive sport. Climbing is physiologically unique in requiring sustained and intermittent isometric forearm ...

Dermatologists break down everything you need to know about Ultherapy, a non invasive way to firm, smooth, and contour the jawline.

Spasticity is a symptom or complication of many different neurological disorders in which normal muscle movement patterns are disrupted, and muscles contract, or tighten, involuntarily. In a healthy ...

Trying to lose weight? You are not isolated. Whether it is fashionable diets or gadgetry, each one is on the quest for the magic bullet. The vibration plates are one of the approaches that have become ...

It's no secret that your go-to habits and strategies for how you take care of yourself need to change as you get older. "Your body probably isn't working the same way at 40-plus as it was at 20," said ...

Soft–hard composite materials can overcome the inherent trade-off between strength and toughness, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Recently, researchers from Japan and China developed a ...

Futsal, a high-intensity sport, places considerable demands on the hip adductors and core musculature, often resulting in ...

Pain or a lack of movement in the thumb could indicate an underlying health condition, such as arthritis, a sprain, or other injury. Exercises, splinting, and medication are some of the treatment ...

The pathogenesis of tendinopathy and the primary biological change in the tendon that precipitates pathology have generated several pathoaetiological models in the literature. The continuum model of ...