Struggling to open a jar or feeling your handshake go soft might seem like a small annoyance. It often is not. Hand weakness can be an early signal of nerve damage, joint disease or repetitive injury, ...

Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) causes the body to attack nerves, resulting in muscle weakness in the arms and legs. It often occurs due to underlying conditions such as small cell lung ...

Distal spinal muscular atrophy is a type of spinal muscular atrophy that primarily affects your hands and feet along with your lower arms and legs. Treatments focus on relieving symptoms. A genetic ...

Muscle pain that does not go away after several days or is accompanied by symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, and extreme weakness requires medical assistance. Muscle pain, also called ...

Believe it or not, your muscle strength and mass can actually tell a lot about your heart's health. New research suggests ...

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal ...