Have you ever worked out and watched your muscles grow before your eyes? While this is a fun, satisfying sight to behold, it's unfortunately temporary. Known as a muscle pump, this type of instant ...

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

A detailed working knowledge of clinical platysma and lip depressor muscle anatomy is of paramount importance to successfully anesthetize and block the treated areas, to avoid injury to important ...

Static stretching and muscle growth caused a stir in bodybuilding circles last year when a study compared a stretching protocol to resistance training, and found those in the stretching group ...

Muscle strength grading is used to categorize muscle strength on a scale of 0 to 5 in relation to the expected strength for a muscle. One of the more common methods is a hands-on test called the ...

Are you paying attention to your pelvic floor health? The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and nerves that form a "supportive hammock" from the back, through the tailbone, lower abdominal area ...

Trump tells the World Economic Forum to invest in the US or face tariffs. President Donald Trump touted a return to the American "golden age" and flaunted that there’s a new leader in town while ...

With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth.

There has never been a better time to get geeky about muscle growth — especially if you don't want to waste your gym time. In a new video, one of the researchers involved in many of these ...

Intercostal muscle strains are the most common type of musculoskeletal chest pain. The intercostal muscles are thin muscles that attach between the ribs. During breathing, the external intercostals ...