Older adults can maintain the muscle pump action needed to prevent or alleviate edema. Older adults appear to be no less able than younger adults to maintain the muscle action they need to help ...

Stress fractures are common injuries that begin with repetitive and excessive stress on a bone, usually involving the leg or foot. Unlike a traumatic bone fracture, many patients overlook the early ...

You exercise to slim down and shape up, so it's no wonder you're alarmed when you end a tough workout and your legs appear larger and more swollen than when you started. In most cases, swelling can be ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Slowly building strength with upper-body weight-lifting can relieve some of the arm and hand swelling that occurs in breast cancer survivors who have had lymph nodes under their ...

WASHINGTON - Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer's troubling legacies - the ...

Because pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) often causes shortness of breath, swelling, and fatigue, exercise may seem like the last thing you should do. But the right kind -- with your doctor’s OK ...

Chronic venous insufficiency is a common condition that affects up to 40 percent of people in the United States. The condition can cause visible veins, pain and swelling, and even skin breakdown. The ...