How a sedentary lifestyle can cause muscle atrophy and what you can do to prevent it

Muscle atrophy is when muscles shrink from lack of use. It can occur due to an injury, a neurological condition, or from a ...
MedPage Today

Acute Muscle Weakness and Skin Rash Following a Lupus Diagnosis

A 30-year-old African-American woman presented to the emergency department for medical assessment after becoming too weak to walk. She reported proximal muscle aches in both arms and legs, a skin rash ...
The Columbian

A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better

This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular atrophy, during tests of experimental spinal cord stimulation to ...
New Atlas

Shape-memory implant may keep immobilized muscles from wasting away

When a limb is rendered immobile for long periods of time, its muscles will inevitably begin to atrophy. A new implant could help keep that from happening, however, by mechanically stretching and ...
The Scientist

Mechanical Implant Stirs Wasting Muscle Back into Action

Muscles are made to move. Stretching and contraction stimulate biochemical pathways within muscle that maintain tissue health. When movement slows—when a broken limb is immobilized in a cast, for ...
WDTN

A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. On ...
KSAT

A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better

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