As people get older, they often notice that their muscles don’t feel as strong as they once did. Many assume this is just a normal part of aging—that muscles naturally become weaker over time. However ...

While a gradual loss in muscle strength is a natural part of aging, for many older adults it's more than just feeling a little weaker. Sarcopenia -- a condition affecting nearly half of adults over 80 ...

Arnold added that while all adults lose motor neurons as they age, he and his research team are learning that the muscle weakness linked with sarcopenia is less about the loss of the number of ...

Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.

Most causes of new onset muscle weakness are serious. True weakness points to diseases of the spinal cord or its nerves. Nerves carry messages from the spinal cord to the muscles in the arms and legs.

A common gripe among people when performing exercises like squats is that it hurts their knees, or that their knees are too ...

Later during her childhood, she frequently complained of significant muscle stiffness that was often followed by generalized limb weakness lasting 2–3 min, usually at the onset of physical ...

Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature Communications, "Analysis of human urinary extracellular ...

A weak pelvic floor is a common condition; some risk factors are age, pregnancy, chronic constipation and coughing. Working ...

lumc.nl Background: Myasthenia gravis and the Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) may have a similar distribution of muscle weakness. Deciding on a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis or LEMS on ...