What makes muscles contract? A physiologist explains how muscles move

It takes an entire team of electricity, calcium, energy and proteins all working together to move your muscles.

Yankees’ Cody Bellinger exits with hamstring injury as trade deadline looms

Losing Bellinger for any amount of time would be a significant blow for the Yankees, whose position-player depth continues to ...
Nature

Hamstring Flexibility and Low Back Pain Dynamics

Hamstring flexibility plays a critical role in the mechanics of the lumbopelvic region and the development, persistence and management of low back pain. Tight or shortened hamstrings limit hip flexion ...
IEEE

Continuous Prediction of Wrist Joint Kinematics Using Surface Electromyography From the Perspective of Muscle Anatomy and Muscle Synergy Feature Extraction

Abstract: Post-stroke upper limb dysfunction severely impacts patients' daily life quality. Utilizing sEMG signals to predict patients' motion intentions enables more effective rehabilitation by ...
Science Daily

A new twist on artificial 'muscles' for safer, softer robots

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...