One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation ...

Physical therapy can help relieve sciatica pain through a variety of techniques, including manual therapy, pain-relieving ...

A limitation to the accurate study of muscle injuries and their management has been the lack of a uniform approach to the categorisation and grading of muscle injuries. The goal of this narrative ...

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Quick flick Kegels, marches, heel slides, Happy Baby Pose, and diaphragmatic breathing are five exercises that help relax and condition the pelvic floor muscles. If you can’t sneeze, laugh ...

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged ...

Your diaphragm is the muscle that controls your breathing. When you breathe in, your diaphragm contracts and creates negative pressure in your chest. When this happens, the alveoli expand and pull in ...

Birds and plants have a close relationship that has developed over millions of years. Birds became diverse and abundant around 135 million years ago. Shortly after, plants started developing new and ...