Satellite cells support adult skeletal muscle fiber adaptations to loading in numerous ways.
The fusion of satellite cells, driven by cell‐autonomous and/or extrinsic factors, contributes …

Individuals that maintain healthy skeletal tissue tend to live healthier, happier lives as proper
muscle function enables maintenance of independence and actuation of autonomy. The …

Skeletal muscle is a plastic tissue that regenerates ad integrum after injury and adapts to
raise mechanical loading/contractile activity by increasing its mass and/or myofiber size, a …

Robot-actuated mechanical loading (ML)–based therapies (“mechanotherapies”) can
promote regeneration after severe skeletal muscle injury, but the effectiveness of such …

Aim Interventions that decrease atrophy during disuse are desperately needed to maintain
muscle mass. We recently found that massage as a mechanotherapy can improve muscle …

Massage is anecdotally associated with many health benefits, but physiological and
clinically relevant mechanisms recently have begun to be investigated in a controlled …

Aging is accompanied by reduced remodeling of skeletal muscle extracellular matrix (ECM),
which is exacerbated during recovery following periods of disuse atrophy. Mechanotherapy …

Massage is a viable mechanotherapy to improve protein turnover during disuse atrophy and
improve muscle regrowth during recovery from disuse atrophy in adult muscle. Therefore …

Physical exercise can cause fatigue, resulting in a decrease in muscle work efficiency. This
study aimed to analyze the potential of massage to accelerate recovery through a literature …

Manual therapies have been practiced for centuries, yet little research has been performed
to understand their efficacy and almost no animal research has been performed to inform …