A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Back pain may be common with age and deskbound lives, but when it is accompanied by numbness or weakness, doctors warn it ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered how exercise helps aging muscles regain their ability to repair ...

History gathering should solicit the patient’s abilities or limitations with these activities of daily living (ADLs). The patient may have mild arthralgias. Lungs are the most common extra muscular ...

Infectious or chronic diseases such as COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While scientists are ...

June Furlan was alarmed when a mystery weakness started taking over her body, so her personal trainer suggested doing “dead bugs” to strengthen her core. She was already an avid gym goer, doing cardio ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than two decades, researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have been investigating a severe form of muscular dystrophy in which muscles progressively degenerate. The research team ...

Malignancies may initially present with muscle weakness and elevated muscle enzymes. Age and gender-specific cancer screening should be completed or updated in those with a myopathic process. 9,10 ...