The changes in composition of muscle interstitial fluid during severe exercise is discussed, and a study of the effect on muscle receptors of one such change, an increase in potassium ion ...

The concern with the cervical herniated disk and the popular whiplash injury as a source of pain in the upper extremity may exclude consideration of a more distal origin of such pain. It is the ...

Engineers in Germany have built a biologically inspired artificial hand with muscles made from bundles of 'smart' wires. An electric charge is all that's needed to make these wires tense or relax, ...