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Today, we're diving into something that might just change how you feel after working out (or even if you spend a lot of time ...
Rheumatoid arthritis is less common than osteoarthritis, affecting around 514,000 Australians. It mostly impacts the wrists ...
Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract ...
Reduce your chances of injury by listening to your body and treating these aches, pains, and ailments appropriately ...
Think of it like this: imagine the fascia (the soft skeleton of connective tissue that surrounds your muscles and organs) as a spiderweb and fibroblasts as spiders, spinning to repair webbing and keep ...
You can donate tissues including your cornea, skin, heart valves, bone, blood vessels, and connective tissue. Transplants of the hands and face, which are less common, are now being performed. Your ...
Lymphatic drainage as a whole "can go a long way to improving the quality of life," for specific patients, Dr. Robert ...
You might think flexibility is something you're born with -- you either have it or you don't. While your flexibility level does have ties to genetics (we can't all be contortionists), you might be ...
The disease occurs when bacteria infiltrate connective tissue around muscles, nerves, fat, and blood vessels, called the fascia. It causes these tissues to die – or undergo "necrosis" – and ...
"NF can occur anywhere skin or tissue is breached, including genitalia." In necrotizing fasciitis, bacteria infiltrate the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, nerves, fat ...