DESTIN, Fla. — Handheld dynamometry, a new, inexpensive and quantitative compact device, proved reliable and effective in evaluating muscle strength in a large cohort of patients with idiopathic ...

Strength is an integral part of health. It’s required for many tasks throughout the day, such as getting out of bed, carrying groceries, or pushing a broken-down car off the road. It’s defined as the ...

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

"When you resistance train, you're working muscles that are opposed by a weight or force," explains Loren Fishman, MD, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Columbia University and ...

Correspondence to Brady Green, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3083, Australia; bradygreen19{at}gmail.com Objective To examine the value of ...

Muscular endurance refers to the ability of a muscle to sustain repeated contractions against resistance for an extended period of time. To increase muscular indurance, you should engage in activities ...

Objectives To examine the association between muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in patients diagnosed with cancer, and whether these ...

Strength training is an important part of any well-rounded fitness regimen for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn at rest.

It's long been known that different positions on the football field fit different body types. A study led by the University of Kansas has gone beyond knowing that linemen are bigger with more body ...