'Leaky' muscle fibers drive immune response in muscular dystrophy

A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered how chronic defects in muscle membrane repair can fuel harmful inflammation. The ...
Men's Journal

Trainer Claims This ‘Overlooked’ Lower-Body Machine Can Help You Unlock Heavy Squats and Lateral Power

View post: An Exercise Scientist Says These 3 Calisthenics Exercises Are the Key to Functional Strength and Longevity After 40 Anthony J. Yeung, C.S.C.S. View post: Build Cyclist-Level Endurance and ...
Runner's World

Working to Get Faster? This Overlooked Muscle Group Could Be the Reason You End Up Sidelined.

Quick test: How long can you hold a side plank? Now, can you pick up your bottom leg, bring the knee toward your chest, and still hold it? If you just tried the move—called the Copenhagen plank—and ...
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Feeling unsteady when walking? For those people: An approach to the 'gluteus medius and adductor muscles'

The causes of unstable walking are varied, including not only muscle weakness due to aging, but also muscle stiffness and a decline in body balance functions. Among these, our clinic focuses on the ...
IEEE

Continuous Prediction of Wrist Joint Kinematics Using Surface Electromyography From the Perspective of Muscle Anatomy and Muscle Synergy Feature Extraction

Abstract: Post-stroke upper limb dysfunction severely impacts patients' daily life quality. Utilizing sEMG signals to predict patients' motion intentions enables more effective rehabilitation by ...
Science Daily

A new twist on artificial 'muscles' for safer, softer robots

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...