CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea - In recognition of National Nutrition Month, Jessica Pastino, a registered dietitian at Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital here, takes the opportunity to share the ...

Exercise-induced muscle damage isn’t just caused by mechanical stress like heavy lifting. New research from German sports scientists shows that your body’s metabolic responses play a major role. These ...

Research in mice shows that the anti-inflammatory properties of exercise may arise from immune cells mobilized to counter exercise-induced inflammation. Immune cells prevent muscle damage by lowering ...

Exercising ranks at the top of many New Year’s resolution lists. While sweating it out, one may wonder what happens inside the body during exercise. According to Keith Baar, a molecular exercise ...

Story by Laura Williams Bustos, M.S. When it comes to exercise and lactic acid, there are a lot of misconceptions. For example, many people blame lactic acid for delayed onset muscle soreness ...

Hit the gym. Get back in shape. That's what many patients with long COVID are told when they talk of the crushing fatigue that envelops them after even a light bout of physical activity. These ...

For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle cramp. These painful, uncontrolled spasms – formally known as ...

This can be a problem for many reasons, because skeletal muscle is far more than the tissue that helps us move. It plays a ...

The connection between exercise and inflammation has captivated the imagination of researchers ever since an early 20th-century study showed a spike of white cells in the blood of Boston marathon ...

A recent study published in Physiological Reports examined 30 trained male athletes performing high-speed eccentric hamstring exercises. The kind of intense, muscle-lengthening contractions that ...