Introduction It has been shown that caffeine promotes vigilance, attention, mood and arousal 5. The potential mechanisms of caffeine’s action include its role as an adenosine receptor antagonist that ...

This study evaluates motor control and learning by assessing voluntary ankle contractions and adaptive gait responses in participants. These assessments provide insight into motor function, ...

Muscle damage, if left untreated, can lead to physical disabilities. A reliable predictor of muscle damage symtoms is, therefore, necessary. Researchers from SIT, Japan, have now identified changes in ...

Introduction Long tendons such as the human Achilles vary considerably in cross-sectional area (CSA) along their length. 1 If a constant force is assumed to act along the tendon, regions of smaller ...