Patients with COPD and coexisting OSAS have greater impairments in muscle quality and physical performance than those with isolated COPD.

IN recent years, there has been a great increase in the number of patients admitted to the hospitals of this country with the diagnosis of poliomyelitis. This patient load has grossly taxed the ...

A study conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, shows that tests of functional mobility and muscle strength can be adapted so that they can be ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

Researchers review pulmonary function testing measures that span 4 categories that can assess the respiratory muscle dysfunction that happens in diseases like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Muscle ...

Duke University researchers have grown the first functional human skeletal muscle tissue entirely from induced human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). The achievement could feasibly allow scientists to ...

Determine if your functional fitness is on track with the official Senior Fitness Test standards designed to measure strength ...

2 Department of Physiotherapy, Institute of Health Protection, Stanislaw Staszic State School of Higher Vocational Education in Pila, Pila, Poland Background Little is known about the impact of ...

Maintaining lean muscle is a powerful way to promote healthy aging, influencing everything from mobility and independence to metabolic health and longevity. Now, a November 2025 study published in the ...

Objective Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is common among females during functional fitness training, such as CrossFit. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pelvic floor muscle training ...