Your diaphragm is having a muscle spasm. Hiccups happen when your diaphragm, that dome shaped muscle that sits between your chest and your abdomen, starts contracting involuntarily.

Adding weight lifting to your workout routine can help you burn fat, build muscle and hit your goals. Giselle Castro-Sloboda Fitness and Nutrition Writer I'm a Fitness & Nutrition writer for CNET ...

Phrenic motoneurons provide motor innervation of the diaphragm muscle and are located in the mid-cervical (C3–C5) spinal cord (Fuller et al., 2022). We tested the hypothesis that expressing DREADDs in ...

Background The architectural characteristics of muscle (fascicle length, pennation angle muscle thickness) respond to varying forms of stimuli (eg, training, immobilisation and injury). Architectural ...

Why do some hamstring and quadriceps strains take much longer to repair than others? Which injuries are more prone to recurrence? Intramuscular tendon injuries have received little attention as an ...

If you’re looking to get noticeable muscle gains, I’ve got good news — you don’t need to spend hours in the weights room to make it happen. In fact, new research suggests that sessions of ...

Muhammad H. Alu’datt, lead author of a recent study on fenugreek and its impact on human health, noted that fenugreek offers a unique combination of macronutrients and minerals that support daily ...

Semaglutide and similar GLP-1 drugs have proven to be highly effective obesity and type 2 diabetes treatments. But like every drug, they have their possible trade-offs, including muscle loss.