When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the ...

Muscle atrophy, characterized by the loss of muscle mass and function, is a hallmark of sarcopenia and cachexia and is ...

Muscle dysmorphia is a specific subtype of the disorder, in which the central fixation is on muscle definition and overall muscle mass. The term was first coined by researchers in 1997 ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered sex-specific differences in how fat accumulates in muscle and ...

Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) may reduce the effort required to walk, and increase walking speed and satisfaction with walking in people with calf muscle weakness due to neuromuscular disorders, but we ...

Sometimes, muscle twitching can indicate other health conditions, ranging from nutritional deficiencies to nervous system disorders like neuropathy or ALS. If you have severe muscle twitching that ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

When experiencing chronic stress, individuals might develop broken heart disease, or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which ...