Muscle, Tendon and Bone – Maria Conley, M.D.

Maria Conley MD, an internal medicine physician, discusses how we lose muscle with age and how to use resistance training to fight back

I talk about how overuse injuries occur, focusing on tendon injury and bursitis. I briefly summarize the science behind tendon strain.

A board-certified internal medicine physician discusses how tiny proteins called myokines cause big changes in your body during physical exercise.

A board certified internal medicine physician talks about how IL-6, a signaling protein released from contracting skeletal muscle during exercise, fine tunes your metabolism and immune system. Want to know why exercise works? I explain on a molecular level.

A board certified internal medicine physician discusses how cycling may be the perfect exercise to fight sarcopenia or age-related muscle atrophy. A deep dive into the the biomechanics of cycling with a focus on muscle activation during the crank cycle.