Get more energy by being more energetic. In this practical guide, leading physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier reveals the ideal walking workout to rebuild muscles. This simple workout divides your everyday walk into three sections, targeting shoulders and arms, then buttocks and legs, and finally heart and lungs. Build and maintain your strength and confidence without having to rearrange your life.

Turn your walk into a workout and maximize fat burning with this cutting-edge guide. Leading physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier gets the latest advice from exercise scientist Lisa Champion. With just a few critical adjustments to your everyday walk, you can build your bottom, your bones, and your entire body. Tone your thighs, flatten your stomach, and create shapely arms with this breakthrough guide. Make every step count.

Work is busy enough without having to deal with backaches or discomfort. The good news is that a few simple changes to your sitting position and some regular stretching can instantly relieve your aches. Leading physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier has devised a practical and fun program to ease workplace backache. The steps are easy to do at your desk, and your back will thank you.

A reflex is an involuntary reaction to a stimulus. For example, if you're cooking hot oatmeal and it splatters and spills on you, your withdrawal reflex can save your hand from serious injury. When the hot oatmeal contacts your hand, pain receptors signal your spinal cord, which signals your arm muscles to pull away your hand. Because your arm flexes as it withdraws, this reflex is called the flexor, or withdrawal, reflex. Many other reflexes also...

When you work out, you increase your bulk and improve your skeletal muscle tone. Skeletal muscle is organized in a complex array of successively smaller structures. A unit, called a muscle fiber, joins other units to form fascicles, which are bound together by fascia, a type of connective tissue. Muscle fibers are made up of even smaller strands called myofibrils. The interaction of myofibrils as they slide and pull alongside each other enables skeletal...

The baby's skeleton begins as fragile membranes and cartilage, but after month 3 the membranes and cartilage begin changing into bone. In month 2 the fetus' skeleton is made up of thin membranes, which are about the thickness of paper tissue, and soft flexible cartilage like the kind found in the ear. Over time both of these turn into bone in a process called ossification. Ossification occurs in two ways. In the first type of ossification, membranes...

Biomechanics researchers are using a special slip simulator to study ways to reduce worker injuries associated with tripping and falling.

Nanoscale films help implants to better adhere to the bone.