Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent ...

Potassium is vital for muscle function, nerve signaling, and fluid balance, especially for those who exercise regularly.

Congenital myopathies are a group of rare, inherited muscle diseases that often cause muscle weakness in childhood. This ...

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal ...

Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and ...

A four-year CHARLS cohort study of 2,657 Chinese adults aged 50 and older finds that dynapenia, or low muscle strength, ...

Statins can cause muscle pain and weakness by triggering an immune response in some people. Researchers may have uncovered the biological pathway that causes this side effect. Severe muscle damage ...

When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most ...

This article is part of a series introducing the latest research in sports science. This time, we cover a study from Japan ...

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 ...

After a certain age, when muscle weakness and pain start to accompany exercise and simple daily tasks like getting up from a chair, we often dismiss it as part of the package of getting older. But ...

Is it more than just 'falls = muscle weakness'?Thinking about future care choices based on caregiving experience and body ...