A pulled muscle hinders your workout routine; sometimes, it feels like it takes forever to heal. Pulled muscles are one of the most common injuries for runners, and they can definitely slow you down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman uses a massage gun (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The team, from the university’s Wyss Institute and John A Paulson School of ...

The combination of mechanotherapy — the use of mechanical forces to stimulate tissue healing — and anti-inflammatory treatment can help heal damage in aged muscles, according to a new study.

Ah, it hurts so good (just keep telling yourself that). While sharp or shooting pain usually signals an injury worth listening to, feeling more general body soreness a day or two after a tough workout ...

A new blood therapy is helping athletes and weekend warriors alike avoid surgery for muscle strains and tendon tears. Richmond Bradshaw, 18, dreamed of playing college football but got sidelined by a ...

Studies in mice by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers suggest how a class of regulatory T cells (Tregs) that are produced in the gut also play a role in repairing injured muscles and mending ...

Muscles get damaged and inflamed during intense workouts. Massaging muscles can help with regeneration and recovery. A new study dives into how this happens in mice and how massaging muscles may also ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have found a critical component for growing self-healing muscle tissues from adult muscle -- the immune system. The discovery in mice is ...

Biomedical engineers have developed lab-grown skeletal muscles able to flex like biologically grown ones and even heal themselves if they are damaged. Researchers have been working on engineered ...

Materials that can heal themselves after becoming damaged have opened up some interesting new possibilities over the past decade or so, pointing to a future of scratch-resistant car paints and space ...