Understanding individual muscle strength is crucial for optimizing physical therapy and enhancing athletic performance. Traditional methods, however, often fall short in precision. The newly ...

Correspondence to Dr Haruki Momma, Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; h-momma{at}med.tohoku.ac.jp ...

Background—Near infrared spectroscopy can be used in non-invasive monitoring of changes in skeletal muscle oxygenation in exercising subjects. Objective—To evaluate whether this method can be used to ...

Measurement of the phase angle (PhA) from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) can be explored as a quick and non-invasive method to measure muscle activity and strength, especially useful in people ...

For years, sarcopenia has been considered a problem almost exclusively of aging and chronic diseases in older adults. However ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

A simplified creatinine index reflects the creatinine generation rate of individual patients on hemodialysis. A simplified creatinine index (SCI) is a reliable and inexpensive marker of muscle mass ...

Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) provides significant benefits to patients with advanced multiple sclerosis (MS), and those benefits are retained 8 weeks after cessation of training, according to a ...

The joints in your body are enveloped by muscles that coordinate their movements. These muscle groups counterbalance each other and work together to complete a movement. The muscles on either side of ...