Articles, tagged with "muscle fibers", page 1
29th June 2012
You’ve heard of facial yoga and facial massage to tighten and tone the skin, but Eastern Medicine yields even more unique techniques for improving aging skin.
Facial Acupressure is now a popular treatment at many spa and aesthetic centers across the cou...
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Author:
daisy
03rd January 2012
A muscle contracture is a permanent shortening of a muscle or joint. It is usually in response to prolonged hypertonic spasticity in a concentrated muscle area, such as is seen in the tightest muscles of people with conditions like spastic cerebral palsy....
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Vikas Gupta
15th August 2011
People often write and talk about physiological differences between muscle fibers (slow twitch vs. fast download, oxidative capacity, etc.), but this information generally is not very useful for health and fitness enthusiast. Some idea of ho...
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Author:
kerls65
25th March 2011
Synthol oil is a posing oil that is designed to give your body the truest definition. This definition comes from the topical oil that you rub into your muscles. It is advised that you only rub it on the muscles that need some extra definition, because syn...
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Author:
leslielike
09th March 2011
Men and women usually write or chat about the physiological dissimilarities involving muscle fibers (quick twitch vs. slow twitch, oxidative capability, and so on.), but this data is commonly not quite valuable to the common well being and fitness fanatic...
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Author:
Wallace Sellers
14th February 2011
Anatomy
Muscle spindles are found within the belly of muscles, embedded in extrafusal muscle fibers. Note that "fusus" is the Latin word for spindle. Muscle spindles are composed of 3-12 intrafusal muscle fibers, of which there are three types:
dynamic ...
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Author:
bnn
22nd November 2010
Acetylcholine on Central and Peripheral Tense TechniquesAcetylcholine was initially identified by Henry Hallett Dale on the yr 1914 for its response on tissues in the heart. It was validated by Otto Loewi as a neurotransmitter, who partially known as it b...
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Author:
endo trex
12th August 2010
Electrotherapy equipment is used to direct electrical energy onto a recipient for increased recovery from a physical injury or illness. The benefits of electrotherapy can be seen quite quickly in some patients, particularly when nerve endings and muscle f...
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Author:
John Smith
30th April 2010
Nutrition and training expert John Parrillo is an innovator who has been on the cutting edge of bodybuilding for more than two decades. His ideas go against conventional wisdom and have been hailed as revolutionary by some and dismissed by others. Some pe...
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Author:
Mike Westerdal
28th April 2010
A kidney disease is an illness or disorder that affects the functions of the kidneys with regard to filtration, re-absorption and secretion. Kidney diseases can be hereditary, congenital or acquired.
Chronic kidney disease occurs when one suffers from ...
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Author:
Dr Charles Buchar
02nd February 2010
Eating the right food and taking the right supplements can make a huge difference on how your body looks. A healthy body consists mainly of lean muscles with just a very thin layer of fat that covers these muscles. Most people cannot or do not know how to...
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Author:
Nitrocut
08th January 2010
Electronic Muscle Stimulators (EMS) and TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators) both work by generating electrical impulses that stimulate nerves through the skin causing muscles controlled by those nerves to react by contracting. In fact EMS m...
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Author:
ActiveForever
04th November 2009
If you have been working out with weights and not making the gains that you would like or you are new to resistance training and your goal is to build size and strength fast then consider adding compound exercises into your routine. Utilizing these exerci...
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Author:
pharris1
30th October 2009
The 10 sets of 10 Reps program is a high-volume muscle building training program for gaining significant weight in a short time. Famous body builders such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vince Gironda have effectively used this workout program with great res...
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Author:
Jason Ferruggia
13th October 2009
You attended your first step over, moved the entire contents of your house in 24 hours or run a marathon? You are certainly very proud of you ... and stiff! To fight against these muscle pain caused by exercise, learn a few simple actions.
The achiness i...
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Author:
Nouman Umar