When it comes to staying connected to your body, it's important to know a bit about the connective tissues that help hold you together. It's easy to confuse tendons and ligaments, but these two ...

If you live or play in the Tahoe mountains, your days might include hiking Desolation Wilderness, mountain biking Corral ...

Replacing damaged knee ligaments with lab-grown tissues is the aim of research by Keith Baar, a newly arrived assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, ...

Ligaments connect one bone to another, providing stability at joints. In the case of any sprain, a ligament is stretched, sometimes to the point of tearing it completely.

Joints often crack due to harmless gas bubbles in fluid or tendons moving over bones. While usually normal, persistent pain, ...

Human body is something that never fails to amaze us. So many organ systems that contain different organs and help in carrying out different bodily functions. The more you get to know about it the ...

We all know it’s important to stretch when you work out, but how much is enough? Is it possible to be too flexible? The trick is to strike a good balance between your strength and your flexibility.

A hyperextended knee — or knee hyperextension — develops when the knee joint bends the wrong way and can damage the ligaments in the knee. The condition is common in athletes who play high-impact ...

Tendon and ligament injuries in horses cause both economic and personal hardships for horse owners and industry professionals. A prolonged period of layup and rehabilitation is necessary, but whether ...

Your body is made up of hundreds of joints. These joints attach bones together and help your body move. The sternoclavicular joint is one of four joints in your shoulder. When the sternoclavicular ...

Posterior cruciate ligament injury happens far less often than does injury to the knee's better known counterpart, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). But just because it's less common doesn't mean ...