News tagged with muscle power


Half time warm-ups boost athletic performance

High-intensity, short duration warm up activities at half time intervals boost athletic performance, a study of soccer players has found.

Health created May 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Missing link in Parkinson's disease found

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have described a missing link in understanding how damage to the body's cellular power plants leads to Parkinson's disease and, perhaps ...

Medical research created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inheritance of mitochondrial disease determined when mother is still an embryo

(Medical Xpress)—The risk of a child to inherit mitochondrial diseases - i. e. malfunction in what is usually referred to as the power plants of the cell - is largely decided when the future mother herself is still an embryo. ...

Genetics created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Lower limb muscle limitations hamper walking in diabetes

(HealthDay) -- In older adults, diabetes correlates with slower walking speed, and diabetes-linked reductions in muscle strength and worse muscle quality contribute to these walking limitations, according ...

Diabetes created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vitamin K2: New hope for Parkinson's patients?

Neuroscientist Patrik Verstreken, associated with VIB and KU Leuven, succeeded in undoing the effect of one of the genetic defects that leads to Parkinson's using vitamin K2. His discovery gives hope to Parkinson's patients. ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0