Your back is a complex network of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and more that work in unison to support your upper body.

Muscles can only contract ... force to the bones through tendons, but skeletal muscles can only exert force by pulling, they cannot push, so moving a joint back and forth requires an antagonistic ...

Fibromyalgia is a long term (chronic) condition that causes widespread pain in the muscles, tendons and ligaments all over the body. Despite the fact that it is a painful disease, it is not ...

Before and after bed rest, elongation (L) of the tendon and aponeurosis of vastus lateralis (VL) and medial gastrocnemius muscles (MG) during isometric knee extension and plantar flexion, respectively ...