This sixth sense helps you stay balanced and injury free, especially as you age. This sixth sense helps you stay balanced and injury free, especially as you age. Credit... Supported by By Connie Chang ...

A unique type of muscle fiber found in the extraocular muscles has been shown to be resistant against the disease ALS, and has been shown to even increase in proportion to compensate when other types ...

How does your brain know the position and movement of your different body parts? The sense is known as proprioception, and it is something like a "sixth sense", allowing us to move freely without ...

Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...

The step training program did not improve ankle proprioception or plantarflexor muscle performance in MS patients. No significant differences were observed between intervention and control groups in ...

The quest for a treatment for muscular dystrophy has led some scientists to focus on the half-dozen muscles surrounding the eyes. These extraocular muscles, which control eye movement, remain ...

Walking without looking at our feet or reaching for your wallet on the desk, behind these everyday movements, is a subconscious ability. This is a ‘silent’ system that feeds the brain with information ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased volume and decreased density of extraocular muscles were linked with ocular dysmotility in patients ...

The most useful biomarker for extraocular muscle enlargement in thyroid eye disease (TED) is unclear. According to this study, higher thyroid-stimulating antibody (TSAb) levels and older age were ...