Muscular strength and its improvement are important to everyone for their regular day-to-day life activities. Conventionally, muscle function can be assessed by means of physical performance tests and ...

Background Muscle weakness due to joint injuries (eg, anterior cruciate ligament rupture) or muscle injuries (eg, muscle strain) are very frequent in sports. Objective To analyze changes to knee joint ...

(Reuters Health) - Women with weaker thigh muscles may be more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis, a recent study suggests. When women had less strength in muscles known as the knee extensors, or ...

Core strength testing has come a long way from the straight-legged, twisting sit-ups used before World War II. We've moved on to bent-knee sit-ups, to crunches and now to the plank pose or hanging ...

Your knees are one of those things you take for granted right up until they start to get stiff. The moment you feel a twinge while sitting at your desk or a twang while working out is the moment your ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics found that thigh muscle strength does not predict the occurrence of knee osteoarthritis uncovered in x-rays, ...

Chances are you know someone who has had a total knee replacement. The surgery is fairly common, with about 790,000 of these procedures done annually in the United States. Those most at risk of ...