Light activity like walking or cycling can ease soreness and speed recovery.Rest if you have sharp pain, swelling, or limited ...

Inflammation in the human body is a complex physiological response to a complex range of triggers, and scientists have just uncovered some useful new details about how it works by experimenting with ...

Scientists in the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University have revealed that exercising human muscles has an intrinsic ability to heal painful inflammation. The study focused on ...

Credit: Getty Images Our work suggests that targeting the brain-muscle axis could offer new treatment strategies for muscle fatigue. Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s ...

Sore muscles are usually impossible to avoid, especially after a vigorous workout. Here are some tips that can help you mitigate the pain. There’s always some muscle soreness to contend with, even if ...

Icing muscles after strenuous exercise is not just ineffective, it could be counterproductive, a new study in mice suggests. Credit...Melody Melamed for The New York Times Supported by By Gretchen ...

A new approach that applies anti-inflammatory nanoparticles to chronically inflamed muscles could have major implications for treating muscular dystrophy. Nanoparticles are far smaller than what the ...

Tokyo, Japan - Inflammatory myopathies can be challenging to treat, but a new study reports encouraging findings for patients with these debilitating conditions. Researchers from Japan have found that ...

Infections and neurodegenerative diseases cause inflammation in the brain. But for unknown reasons, patients with brain inflammation often develop muscle problems that seem to be independent of the ...

Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and ...