Heart patients urged to exercise their calf muscles
Scientists have a strange tip for heart disease sufferers: make sure you exercise your ankles.
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The Journal of Biomechanics publishes reports of original and substantial findings using the principles of mechanics to explore biological problems. Analytical, as well as experimental papers may be submitted, and the journal accepts original articles, surveys and perspective articles (usually by Editorial invitation only), book reviews and letters to the Editor. The criteria for acceptance of manuscripts include excellence, novelty, significance, clarity, conciseness and interest to the readership.
Scientists have a strange tip for heart disease sufferers: make sure you exercise your ankles.
Jan 8, 2015
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A new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center examines what may cause chronic back pain in runners and the exercises to help prevent it.
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We use our wrists constantly, but how do they work? In a just-published Journal of Biomechanics article, the researchers proved a longtime assumption about individuals' right and left wrists, while also finding differences ...
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Older adults who hold reading material at arm's length to bring it into focus are actually taking on the work that their eyes once did. It's a literal lack of accommodation: the process by which the eye's lens normally morphs ...
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It's a mysterious condition often linked to childbirth that causes distress and discomfort and requires surgery for more than 200,000 women a year - but there's no good way to study it.
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If you're out sweating with your Fitbit aiming for 10,000 steps, Kinesiology's Dr. Reed Ferber, Ph.D., wants you to know you don't need to feel guilty if you don't hit that goal.
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When cancer cells metastasize, they often travel in the bloodstream to a remote tissue or organ, where they then escape by squeezing through the blood vessel wall and entering the site of metastasis. A study from MIT now ...
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After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, it's common to experience quadriceps weakness, which was thought to be caused primarily by muscle atrophy, or shrinkage.
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A University at Buffalo researcher has some good news for athletes and fitness enthusiasts who favor thick, heavily cushioned running shoes. Although these shoes are increasingly popular because they provide comfort and a ...
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Bioengineers have compiled a set of recommendations that could significantly reduce concussions and other head injuries in rugby union, having assessed how head impacts and movement vary based on the position on the body ...
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