Two variables that may contribute to strain injury susceptibility are fatigue and weakness. Complete disruption of the muscle-tendon unit is one type of muscle injury. Another is the change in ...

I am trying to get into shape for summer, and one area that has always been challenging has been my upper arms. Recently, ...

Subscribe today. Everyone is familiar, at least hand-wavingly, with the distinction between slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle-fiber types. The former are great for running marathons; the latter ...

Muscle fibers in children with SMA type 1 show substantial differences in components of the myosin protein called heavy ...

Muscle strain injuries occur when muscle is elongated passively or activated during stretch. Eccentric contraction of the muscle contributes to injury by generating high muscle forces during ...