A practical handbook on evaluating muscular strength and function, Daniels and Worthinghams Muscle Testing: Techniques of Manual Examination and PerformanceTesting,9th Edition makes it easy to ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

Background The re-injury rate of the hamstring muscle group is reported as high as 12%. This emphasises the need for better testing procedures when considering increasing the workload or allowing a ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease of the nervous system. It affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord called motor neurons. Motor neurons control muscle movement and ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered that a simple combination of two common blood tests can help identify a serious and often overlooked complication of chronic kidney disease. The ...