A pulled muscle hinders your workout routine; sometimes, it feels like it takes forever to heal. Pulled muscles are one of the most common injuries for runners, and they can definitely slow you down ...

The combination of mechanotherapy — the use of mechanical forces to stimulate tissue healing — and anti-inflammatory treatment can help heal damage in aged muscles, according to a new study.

Massaging injuries doesn’t just make you feel better, it also helps the body heal faster and stronger, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard University have found that massages can flush ...

A new blood therapy is helping athletes and weekend warriors alike avoid surgery for muscle strains and tendon tears. Richmond Bradshaw, 18, dreamed of playing college football but got sidelined by a ...

Studies in mice by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers suggest how a class of regulatory T cells (Tregs) that are produced in the gut also play a role in repairing injured muscles and mending ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have found a critical component for growing self-healing muscle tissues from adult muscle -- the immune system. The discovery in mice is ...

Whether you’re a world-class athlete competing in the Rio Olympics, or a desk-ridden journalist with terrible posture, back and neck pain can be real occupational hazards. To treat their sore muscles, ...

Muscles get damaged and inflamed during intense workouts. Massaging muscles can help with regeneration and recovery. A new study dives into how this happens in mice and how massaging muscles may also ...

Biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates into mice quickly, and for the first time, demonstrates the ...

Massages feel good, but do they actually speed muscle recovery? Turns out, they do. Scientists applied precise, repeated forces to injured mouse leg muscles and found that they recovered stronger and ...

Arthritis is one of the most common yet painful health conditions globally. The majority of us fall victim to arthritis after turning 30. The severity of the pain only worsens as we get older. More ...