More information has emerged about Thatcher Demko's lower-body injury. According to Kevin Woodley of InGoal Magazine and NHL.com, Demko is recovering from a Popliteus muscle injury. Demko last ...

Tendons that are stiffer can transmit force from muscles to bones more effectively—improving how efficiently we move. It might help to imagine the spring within a pogo stick.

Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU),Scripps Research, and others found that tendons, not muscles, are the crucial site where increased expression of a mechanosensitive ion ...

To prevent injuries or keep them from returning, you need to train the tendons and the muscle they connect to slowly and with weights. “Body weight isn’t enough,” Dr. Sattgast said.

So you guys can get your Web MD out and look up Popliteus. “It is a thin triangle-shaped muscle behind the back of the knee. And that, evidently, is where the injury has occurred.

Hold it: Isometric training is where you hold a muscle contraction without moving. There are many health benefits of isometric training – not least because it effectively loads tendons, which is ...