The authors begin this article by pointing out that even though physical activity has been proven to improve cardiovascular health and decrease all-cause mortality, women typically lag behind men when it comes to the frequency and intensity in which they exercise....
This is the first paper to look at what happens to muscles that are not exercised during resistance training. These authors had 21 participants perform resistance training for 10 weeks in which they performed specific exercises to target their biceps, hamstring, and...
Click Here to download a PDF of this article Tibial varum, or bowed legs, is a normal alignment pattern in toddlers that typically corrects itself by about age 2, when the knees gradually straighten and shift to a slight valgus alignment. A common cause for the...
Click Here to download a PDF of this article Listen to Podcast Even though the word bunion is widely used to describe the condition in which the big toe angles out while the first metatarsal angles in, the technical name for this condition is either hallux abductus or...
Athletes have been using foam rollers to warm up before exercising for the past 20 years, and recently, foam rollers that vibrate at specific frequencies are being used to relax muscles and potentially improve performance (Fig. 1). While prior research shows that...
