“Often a muscle that is weak will give the sensation of tightness—plus, this is usually a tendon injury, and we don't want to focus on stretching a tendon injury.” By tendon injury, she means ...

According to Ward, translational research like this is not just a strength of his lab, but of the entire UC San Diego campus.

But what happens to your muscles and tendons to make this possible? Associate Professor Daisuke Takeshita and doctoral student Kazuki Kuriyama from the Department of Life Sciences at the ...

If you have diabetes and you hurt when you move, it might be due to problems with your tendons. They're cord-like bands that connect your muscles to your bones. The high blood sugar levels that ...

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 ...

“By definition, a sprain is an injury to a ligament, and a strain is an injury to a muscle,” says Mark Riederer, MD, a pediatric sports medicine specialist at University of Utah Health. “That’s really ...

Tendons are fiber-like bands similar to ligaments. But instead of connecting bones to other bones, they connect muscles to bones. There are two important tendons in the knee. The quadriceps ...

From here, the muscle crosses the front of the thigh and connects with the tibia or shinbone. Thick bands of fibrous tissues — tendons — connect muscles to bones. Two other thigh muscles ...

Sprains and strains can affect any of the many muscles, ligaments, and tendons in the thigh. A sprain is a torn or stretched ligament. Ligaments connect bones to other bones. A strain is a torn or ...

My PhD aimed to gain insights in the relationship between triceps surae muscle force-sharing, Achilles tendon properties, and changes in pain, tendon structure and functioning during rehabilitation in ...