Sentences with phrase «voluntarily move muscles»

ALS is a nasty neurological ailment without a cure to date that affects about 12,000 to 15,000 Americans; it eats away at the body's ability to voluntarily move muscles, eventually sapping essential functions like walking, talking, eating, and breathing.

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Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy that involves electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Over 95 % of the body's total creatine content is located in skeletal muscle (skeletal muscles are the ones that attach to your bones and allow you to voluntarily move your body, as opposed to the smooth and cardiac muscles of your intestines and heart, respectively, which you can not consciously control).