You have 20 muscles in your forearm, the part of your arm between your elbow and your hand. They help you move your arms, hands, and fingers and perform many of the tasks of daily life. You can strain ...

Muscle atrophy is when muscles shrink and weaken due to lack of use. Other symptoms of muscle atrophy include asymmetry and impaired balance. In most cases, muscle atrophy can be reversed with general ...

Jesy Nelson gave birth to her twin girls prematurely in May 2025 - now she's revealed her six-month-olds have been diagnosed with a life-changing illness ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetically inherited disorder that causes muscle weakness. Adults can get spinal muscular atrophy, but it’s rare in adults and progresses slowly. It doesn’t typically ...

You probably work your biceps and triceps on arm day, but are you remembering your forearms, too? The muscles in your forearms are responsible for a strong grip, as well as balancing out those other ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Recently, I wrote a column about my battle with carpal tunnel syndrome, and my subsequent surgery. A big problem with a hand and wrist injury is that you can’t grip anything or exert any appreciable ...

During desperate times, such as fasting, or muscle wasting that afflicts cancer or AIDS patients, the body cannibalizes itself, atrophying and breaking down skeletal muscle proteins to liberate amino ...

Ever skip the gym for a few days… and suddenly realize it's been three weeks? Whether it was work, travel, injury, or life just getting in the way, that creeping thought hits: Did I just lose all my ...