Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admittedly, percussive massage devices look pretty intimidating, but using one can help increase blood flow to support your ...

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In my last column, we discussed that current scientific evidence doesn’t suggest that stretching prevents injury in the sport or activity immediately following the stretch. However, we also covered ...

BARBARA FROM HOMA HAS A QUESTION ABOUT. MUSCLE PAIN. IN MY OPINION THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION. SHE WANTS TO KNOW IS THERE A CERTAIN AREA OF THE BODY THAT THE MUSCLE PAIN MAY BE IN? >> I KNOW YOU SAW ...

A newly developed bionic knee could help people with above-the-knee amputations walk and climb with greater ease than they could with a traditional prosthesis. The new prosthesis, described July 10 in ...

Winters are a time when we want to curl up in bed and enjoy the cosy feeling. But for some people, it is that time of the year when they wake up feeling creakier than usual. Backs feel tighter, knees ...

Massage has been used to treat sore, injured muscles for more than 3,000 years, and today many athletes swear by massage guns to rehabilitate their bodies. But other than making people feel good, do ...

If there’s one familiar sound whenever a volunteer tries out an interactive device that uses electrical muscle stimulation, it is probably laughter. Even for experienced users of the technology, the ...

Modern prostheses have come a long way from their hand hook and pegleg predecessors. Although they look a lot more like the real thing, they are still lacking in the natural feel department. To ...

Q. Sometimes when I'm lifting weights I can feel my muscles 'shaking' and after some sessions they twitch intermittently. What is this? One of the key points here is that it is entirely normal for ...

Massages feel good, but do they actually speed muscle recovery? Turns out, they do. Scientists applied precise, repeated forces to injured mouse leg muscles and found that they recovered stronger and ...