An exercise physiologist reveals how many step-ups you can do after 60 to prove elite leg power.

Movement, balance, posture, and strength “can all be altered if you have too much muscle loss,” Ravussin said. Indeed, loss ...

How many times could you stand up from a chair and sit down again, without using your hands, in 30 seconds? The answer may indicate your ability to maintain independence in later life. The 30-second ...

Objective: To determine if ice-water immersion after eccentric quadriceps exercise minimises the symptoms of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Design: A prospective randomised double-blind ...

A woman in her early 60s with acute Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) developed rapidly progressive tetraparesis and respiratory ...

The straight leg raise test checks leg strength and stability by lifting your leg while lying flat. It helps diagnose back pain and conditions like lumbar disc issues and sciatica. Results of the test ...

Introduction Knee joint injury is a common sports injury and how to speed up the recovery process is a concern for all athletes. Objective Determine whether aquatic sports rehabilitation nursing can ...

OBJECTIVE: Therapeutic exercises are well documented for the treatment of osteoarthritis; there is less evidence on what the effect of closed kinetic chain exercises is for knee osteoarthritis. The ...

A long track speed skater sustained a deep horizontal cut to the right knee just distally to the patella, after he got hit by the skate blade of the pair mate. The injury included a complete patellar ...