Summary: Soleus is the largest muscle of the leg, producing force of nearly 8 times body weight during pushoff. The world’s fastest marathon runners have the largest soleus muscles, and weakness of the soleus correlates with the development of Achilles tendinopathy....
According to the World Health Organization, hypertension is a leading cause of stroke and cardiovascular disease, which cause more than 15 million deaths annually (1). Affecting more than 1.3 billion people worldwide, arterial hypertension is diagnosed when systolic...
Summary People with low arches are 20 times more likely to be injured than people with neutral arches, while people with high arches are nearly 80 times more likely to be injured (1). Although effective at controlling motion and reducing injury rates, recent research...
It’s a depressing fact but shortly after age 50, you begin to lose nearly 2 percent of your muscle fibers each year. Figure 1 is a graph of the average number of quadriceps muscle fibers present in adults aged 18 to 82 (1). Looking at the center of the graph, you can...
