3 Grupo Mixto de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Exitoso UCLM-SESCAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha-Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha, IDISCAM, Toledo, Spain This PhD thesis aimed: (i) to assess ...

You need more than strength to age well — you also need power. Here’s how to measure how much you have. By Amanda Loudin For seven years, the author has devoted three to four weekly sessions to ...

Sarcopenia – the gradual decline in skeletal muscle mass, strength, power, and capacity that occurs with age – is familiar to nearly all. What individuals do not know is that sarcopenia may start as ...

The exponential rise of our aging population. The pandemic. The explosion of GLP-1s. It’s a trifecta that’s making muscle — and the serious implications of not having enough of it — part of a larger ...

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 ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A simple handgrip test may reveal more than muscle power in very old adults, offering insight into how physical strength aligns with brain activation in regions that support ...