When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

Human movements like hopping and running can be explained using a spring-mass model. In this model, the leg works like a ...

Background The medial hamstring muscle has the potential to prevent excessive dynamic ... at very high levels of normalised EMG (73–115% of MVC). In contrast, the supine leg curl and hip extension ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo reveal the way our legs adapt to fast movements. When people hop at high speeds, key ...

Clinical examination often reveals tenderness over the medial head of gastrocnemius ... Finally other rarer causes of exercise induced leg pain are discussed, namely muscle hernia, popliteal artery ...