Articles for tag: Hamstring Injuries, Lifting Weights, Muscle Strength

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Muscle Tears from Lifting Weights

A torn muscle can be a painful injury that proves difficult to heal. A muscle tear occurs when muscle fibers are ripped apart and bleed. The presence of blood in the muscle compartment can cause scar tissue to form. Muscle tears are sudden injuries. Any muscle in the body can tear at any time. Muscle ...

Muscle Twitching Help: Foot Drop Strength Test for ALS

If you have muscle twitching and have googled twitching muscles, you’ve most likely stumbled upon some links for the deadly disease ALS. You now might think you have ALS, since muscle twitching is a symptom of incurable ALS. But if you read more about ALS, you’ll realize that muscle twitching comes after muscle weakness. However, ...

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Twitching Muscles? ALS Panic? Tests for Finger Muscle Strength

Twitching muscles can have some people fearing they have ALS, that incurable fatal disease that causes muscles to waste away. A classic symptom of ALS is muscle weakness. People with twitching muscles who think they have ALS are prone to relentlessly performing muscle strength tests. People with muscle twitching are often never satisfied, however, if ...

Strength Training Benefits Older Adults

With the wide publicity America is receiving in regards to the growing obesity rate, there are countless programs designed to lose weight and get in shape. Strength training has obvious benefits to those looking to burn calories otherwise stored as excess fat. What is not so widely talked about is the benefit that strength training ...