If you're suffering with pain in the back of the heel, you may have picked up an achilles tendon injury. Here's what you need ...

Alafair Biosciences earned FDA 510(k) clearance for the VersaCoat tendon protector and VersaCoat nerve protector, according to a July 30 news release. VersaCoat is a syringe-deliverable gel that ...

Tendons attach skeletal muscles to bones and other structures, and serve to transmit and absorb force.

These are the muscles that, with the help of tendons and ligaments, make it possible for the body to move and perform a wide range of functions.

Skeletal muscles come in pairs - one muscle to move the bone in one direction, another muscle to move it back. Muscles are connected to bones by tendons.

Your thigh muscles are what’s known as skeletal muscles. This means that they’re attached directly to your bones and tendons, and they assist in moving parts of your skeleton.

However, in skeletal muscles with fascicles, the muscle fibers are shorter than the muscle belly and attach to the tendon at an angle. This angle between the fascicles and the tendon changes in ...