Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it. Lower back pain is often ...

deeper core muscles (transverse abdominis), hip flexors, lower back, shoulders and to a lesser extent, your lats. Hold a weight to your chest or focus on using your bodyweight if you’re a ...

Abdominal spasms — which some people refer to as stomach spasms or twitching — occur when muscles in the stomach or intestines contract. These spasms can range in intensity and duration.

June 10, 2025 — Acetaminophen may be doing more than just dulling pain in your brain it could be stopping it before it even starts. Scientists at Hebrew University have discovered that a ...

Reverse planks work incredibly well for your entire core muscle groups, including the transverse abdominous, the rectus abdominus, the external obliques and the glutes, which together help in ...

Causes of chest pain, some benign and some serious, include heart attack, angina, heartburn, infections, inflammation, and panic attacks. If you experience new chest pain, it's best to seek ...

Abstract: Transverse section emission imaging provides a method to quantitatively measure physiological parameters on a three dimensional basis in the body. PCII, the MGH Positron Camera, is widely ...

After 12 months of hormone therapy, significant decreases in measures of strength, LBM and muscle area are observed. The effects of longer duration therapy (36 months) in eliciting further decrements ...

Given muscle anisotropy, stiffness changes may occur in the longitudinal plane parallel to muscle fibers or perpendicularly in the transverse plane. Shear wave velocity (SWV) was measured in both ...

In this paper, we propose an sEMG-based Hill-type model for estimation of swallowing motion. Firstly, the sEMG signals of suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles and acceleration signals of larynx which ...