If you place your thumb and pinky together and gently flex your wrist, you might notice a thin cord rise beneath the skin of ...

Hitting middle age can be a shrinking experience. You're usually less active, so you don't use your muscles as much; or move the tendons that hold those muscles to your bones. The result is that they ...

While some may think of movement as something that is coordinated between the brain and the bones, it requires an entire supporting cast of soft tissue. For the body to be able to move, tendons, ...

The ankle is complex, composed of multiple bones, muscles, ligaments, and joints. As a result, it can be injured in many ways, including fractures, twists, sprains, and strains. One type of sprain, a ...

Your pectoralis major is a large and powerful chest muscle that’s shaped like a fan. It starts from two sections: your breastbone (sternum) and your collarbone (clavicle). The two sections come ...

People with fibromyalgia feel pain not because the area that is hurting is damaged or has an injury, but because a problem exists with the way the brain and nervous system process pain from that area.

Joint pain has quietly become one of the most common health complaints of modern life. Knee pain, shoulder pain, tennis elbow ...

The tendon width of the lateral rectus muscle is known to be a useful indicator for estimation of the effect of lateral rectus recession in intermittent exotropia. This study was conducted to ...

Tendons play a crucial role in our bodies by functioning as a connector that binds muscles to bones, enabling movement. Nonetheless, repeated strain or the normal aging process can result in tendon ...

After the summer break, you're ready to get back into exercise. You put on your shoes, pop on your headphones and head out ...

People with fibromyalgia feel pain not because the area that is hurting is damaged or has an injury, but because a problem exists with the way the brain and nervous system process pain from that area.