Stretching and strengthening exercises can be a safe and effective way to ease knee pain by improving stability and reducing ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular atrophy, during tests of experimental spinal cord stimulation to ...

Muscles are made to move. Stretching and contraction stimulate biochemical pathways within muscle that maintain tissue health. When movement slows—when a broken limb is immobilized in a cast, for ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who took tofacitinib for 6 months had increased lower limb and thigh muscle volume, a small prospective study found. “Tofacitinib is associated with an increase in ...

Le Giang said that for the past few months she has been in so much pain that she cannot walk, sometimes she has to crawl into ...

If you’ve taken a couple of weeks off, don’t panic. A study published in the European Journal of Sports Science found that a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. On ...