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 ...

Muscle testing is also known as applied kinesiology (AK) or manual muscle testing (MMT). It is an alternative medicine practice that claims to effectively diagnose structural, muscular, chemical, and ...

Sit-up capacity stood out as a significant predictor of mortality in one large observational study. Researchers tested muscular fitness in more than 8,000 Canadian women and men and tracked their ...

A new genetic test targeting the most common types of muscular dystrophy -- those caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene -- is far quicker with greater accuracy and sensitivity than existing tests ...

The clinical distinction between myopathic and neurogenic disorders of the motor unit is often difficult, since both lesions appear as flaccid, areflexic paralyses, often with variable muscular ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects one in 3,500 newborn boys in the UK A group of MPs is urging the government to allow the testing of newborn boys for a deadly muscle wasting disease. Duchenne ...

Carrier screening for SMA -- a serious genetic disease affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 infants that causes progressive muscle weakness and death -- should be made available to all families, ...

A group of MPs is urging the government to allow the testing of newborn boys for a deadly muscle wasting disease. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects one in every 3,500 newborn boys, and many ...