Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered how exercise helps aging muscles regain their ability to repair ...

Occasional leg cramps are considered common and usually harmless, especially after physical exertion, dehydration, or ...

DOMS is muscle pain and stiffness or “muscle fever” that occurs after strenuous or unusual physical activity. It likely results from temporary microtears and inflammation in muscle tissue. Massages, ...

Electrical muscle stimulation involves sending electrical impulses through the skin. This stimulation may provide benefits, such as helping repair tissue and strengthening the muscles. Share on ...

Building muscles: Muscle stem cells (their nuclei marked in blue) gradually alter their structure and function, becoming adult muscle cells (whose nuclei turn red). Those cells will eventually fuse ...

Immobility or a decline in physical activity is a common cause of muscle loss, but the underlying mechanism of this loss has remained unclear. A research group led by Professor Wataru Ogawa at Kobe ...

Correspondence to Dr Haruki Momma, Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; h-momma{at}med.tohoku.ac.jp ...

What Is the Psoas Muscle? The psoas (pronounced so-ezz) muscles are two large muscles in your lower back. You have one on either side of your spine. They're the main muscular connection between your ...

Flexing your muscles isn’t just about looking good; it can also boost your mental and physical health by treating headaches, high blood pressure, digestive problems, and more. Here’s what you need to ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If your foam roller or massage gun just isn't cutting it, muscle scraping might be the recovery method ...