Your muscles and bones work together to support your movement. A tendon is what attaches muscle to bone. They link your bones and muscles and allow them to move together during activity. Tendons ...

MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years ...

Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU),Scripps Research, and others found that tendons, not muscles, are the crucial site where increased expression of a mechanosensitive ion ...

Tendon troubles can arise from inflammation, a rupture, or breakdown (degeneration) of the tendon tissue. These conditions ...

As populations age worldwide, the ability of older adults to move independently and safely has become a key determinant of ...

Joseph Bennington-Castro is a science writer based in Hawaii. He has written well over a thousand articles for the general public on a wide range topics, including health, astronomy, archaeology, ...

Female athletes taking birth control pills were five times less likely to develop muscle or tendon injuries. But are the benefits worth the risks? Women are more prone to ligament injuries, such as ...