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 ...

IN recent years, there has been a great increase in the number of patients admitted to the hospitals of this country with the diagnosis of poliomyelitis. This patient load has grossly taxed the ...

Sit-up capacity stood out as a significant predictor of mortality in one large observational study. Researchers tested muscular fitness in more than 8,000 Canadian women and men and tracked their ...

Chronic muscle loss doesn't simply make a person physically weaker. Among other things, it increases the risk of serious falls … and even death. A new urine test, however, could allow it to be ...

When I was trained as an American physician, I was never exposed to the concept of muscle strength testing that is utilized as part of the pseudo-scientific field of applied kinesiology (AK). To be ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease of the nervous system. It affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord called motor neurons. Motor neurons control muscle movement and ...