It was a sobering summation for a Vancouver Canucks’ season of concern. Head coach Rick Tocchet knows amid injures, lockerroom drama, departures and arrivals, and trade-deadline uncertainty, only one ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

If your knee pain is sharp, new or the result of an injury, most experts recommend holding off on running, climbing or ...

Our ability to rotate plays a key role in sports performance but also in our daily lives. Here are two exercises to strengthen your rotation and prevent back pain.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The ...

Muscle relaxants work by decreasing tension in back muscles that might be compressing nerves or spasming in response to nerve irritation. For more severe or persistent cases, doctors sometimes ...

Specifically, you’ll lengthen out your abdominal muscles while firing up your shoulders, since those are what help stabilize your body. Most importantly, though, you’ll arch your low back ...

A new study has found that taking five grams of a creatine supplement daily, which is the upper limit of the recommended daily dose, while lifting weights doesn’t lead to more muscle gains.

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...