Using ultrasound elastography to quantify passive muscle stiffness in children: Effect of spasticity and botulinum toxin on muscle

Joline E. Brandenburg, M.D., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, discusses the rationale for studying passive muscle stiffness, the effects of spasticity on muscle in children with cerebral palsy.

Improving muscle health

Nathan K. LeBrasseur, M.S., Ph.D., associate professor and co-chair of research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, discusses age- and disease-associated muscle loss.

Grand Rounds— Bedside to Bench and Back: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

Michael J. Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D., presents Bedside to Bench and Back: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering.

Childhood fractures may indicate bone density problems

Broken bones may seem like a normal part of an active childhood. About 1 in 3 otherwise-healthy children have a bone fracture. Breakage of the bone running from the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist (distal forearm fracture) is the ...

Quality of life after high-level SCI

Rita Hamilton, D.O., discusses facilitating fate: Quality of life decisions after high-level cervical spinal cord injury (SCI).

Stem cells get hip

Stem cells are the starting point for all the tissues in your body. Your body grows them all the time. So, Mayo researchers thought why not put them to work healing damaged tissues such as heart muscle or bone.