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 ...

Your muscles move when nerve signals from the brain tell them to get to work. Electromyography (EMG), a diagnostic test, measures how well your muscles respond to those signals. Movement is a complex ...

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 ...

Muscle testing is also known as applied kinesiology (AK) or manual muscle testing (MMT). It is an alternative medicine practice that claims to effectively diagnose structural, muscular, chemical, and ...

Muscular endurance tests can help you gauge the effectiveness of your workout and provide clues about your overall physical fitness. When it comes to measuring progress in the weight room, muscular ...

A simple 5-minute test called “phase angle” can predict memory problems, especially in women, by measuring muscle cell health Women with higher phase angles had 72% lower odds of cognitive impairment, ...

Increased respiratory muscle work is associated with dyspnea and poor exercise tolerance in obese patients. We evaluated the effect of respiratory muscle endurance training (RMET) on respiratory ...