Drs. Eugene Brabston, Aaron Casp, Thomas Evely, and Amit Momaya, faculty members in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, are authors of a recently published article titled “Patients with operative ...

The biggest muscle, the gluteus maximus ... which can lead to discomfort or injury.” With the gluteus medius playing a vital part in so many of our basic motions, it’s high time we ask ...

“It’s important to strengthen your gluteus medius to make sure all three of the muscles in the glutes are equally strong. If one muscle was weaker than the others, this could lead to injury ...

If the gluteus medius is weak, other muscles such as the piriformis (another small muscle deep in the buttocks ... kneecap which can result in a knee injury. So what exercises can we do to ...

“Dead butt syndrome,” or gluteal amnesia, is a condition that occurs when your gluteus medius gets inflamed ... spine and low back. Muscle tightness in the hips is also a major culprit of ...

Methods: Eight healthy young adult volunteers without history of knee or quadriceps injury participated. Surface EMG data were collected from the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), ...

Correspondence to: Dr Scott M Lephart Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, 3200 South Water Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA; lephartpitt.edu Background: In order to ...