Background Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting are two sports that expose the body to great forces. Injury characteristics have not been systematically reviewed for these two growing sports.

Back injuries from lifting often come from simple tasks. You lift a box. You move a patient. You pull a pallet. Then you feel a snap, pull, or sharp pain. Sometimes the pain grows through the day ...

Healthcare industry officials and researchers claim that most U.S. hospitals have not acted aggressively when it comes to protecting their nursing staff from injuries due to lifting and moving ...

Lifting heavy is one of the fastest ways to build raw strength and muscle, but without proper safety habits, it can also lead ...

One perennial cause of why construction workers get hurt on the job—lifting, pushing or pulling things—has risen to second place in one major insurer's latest ranking of most costly injuries. They ...

When you lift weights with poor form, you risk injury. While practicing often helps poor form, sometimes the real culprit is really the lack of aerobic capacity. Here’s why this occurs and what you ...

Russian powerlifting champion Alexander Sedykh suffered a horrifying injury at the World Raw Powerlifting Federation European Championships event in Dolgoprudny, which is near Moscow, earlier in ...