Sentences with phrase «as electrical muscle»

We uses non-invasive techniques such as electrical muscle stimulation, joint mobilization, thermotherapy, cryotherapy, massage and stretching.

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Potassium is an electrolyte that acts as a messenger carrying the electrical impulses that stimulate our nerves and muscles.

El Guerrouj is alive with a kind of music when he runs, as if his contracting muscles were firing electrical impulses to his brain.

The active arm support is controlled by electrical (EMG) muscle signals or minimum muscle strength from the arm, which makes movement as intuitive and natural as possible.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Although the electrical activity of muscles, he explained, is normally considered as artifact noise that needs to be filtered out to attain clean EEG signals that are of interest, they are still informative about how facial muscles move, such as during a wink.

Furthermore, the scientists proved the device's mechanical durability through repeated bending and stretching, exceeding 10,000 times, of a conductor attached on the forefinger; they also established its reliability as an electrode for electromyogram recordings when its readings of the electrical activity of muscles were comparable to those obtained through conventional gel electrodes.

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.

Baughman and his colleagues have been developing substances that serve as artificial muscles (by converting chemical energy into electrical energy) that may someday be able to move prosthetic limbs and robot parts.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

It's like using that protein as a jumper cable to give the muscle cell a little electrical jumpstart.

«It could be due to abnormal electrical signal conduction throughout the heart (such as arrhythmia), or weakened contraction force of heart muscles (like cardiomyopathy), or both.

Dublin — 9th March, 2018 — Researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science institute have developed a new biomaterial which is capable of both regenerating tissues which respond to electrical stimuli (such as the nerves, spinal cord, heart, brain and muscles) as well as eliminating infection — an ever - growing problem in hospitals.

What it is During a biofeedback session, you're hooked up to electrical sensors that chart and display your heart and breathing rates as well as your blood pressure, temp and muscle activity.

As for the Electrical Muscle Stimulation device, I can't speak to that... I have never heard of its effect specifically on women with DR.. It's something that you should talk with your doc about and look into the research.

Physiotherapy treatment for TMJ Disorders includes postural examination and correction, and may include a combination of manual therapy to the chewing / biting muscles and those in the neck and covering the head, mobilization of the facial bones, jaw and neck, acupuncture as tolerated, electrical stimulation, and therapeutic exercises.

As the subjects were doing the exercises, researchers measured their muscle activity using electrodes that detect the electrical impulses sent to the muscle (which is, put simply, a way to measure how hard a muscle is working).

When people use their muscles, the intensity of the electrical stimuli from the nerves to the muscles increases as the muscles become tired.

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It is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain which causes associated symptoms such as muscle twitching, uncoordination and more.

When this protective sheath is too thin, as in hypomyelination, the electrical impulses can get lost between nerves and cause the nerves and corresponding muscles to malfunction.

In some diseases, such as dilated cardiomyopathy in Doberman Pinschers or ARVC in boxers, cardiac muscle cells are replaced by fibrous (scar) tissue, fat, or fibro - fatty tissue, which creates an ideal environment to disrupt the normal electrical stimulation of the heart and cause arrhythmias particularly ventricular tachycardia.

As mentioned, the heart has its own electrical power grid so to speak, a fine network of specialized nodes and electrical conduction pathways spread throughout the muscle of the heart.

If we think of the heart as having an electrical system that sends signals to coordinate heart muscle contraction and relaxation, any short circuit in the system can lead to an irregular heartbeat, and then decreased function.

The muscle bruising that results from car accidents, dog fights, electrical and other burns as well as severe trauma of any kind will also cause high CK levels.

Microsoft have just patented some new tech which see's you placing sensor nodes on your body, these nodes can then be activated by electrical muscle impulses such as clenching your hand.

Temporary symptom relief may be achieved through pain - management techniques such as heat / ice application, TENS (electrical stimulation), and muscle relaxation exercises.

However, there are multiple types of heart disease that may affect the heart muscle, valves, electrical system, as well as your arteries and veins, and more.

Administer electrical muscle stimulation, thermotherapy, and lumbar traction as directed by the doctor

Organizing various treatments as appropriate, such as therapeutic exercise programs, muscle reeducation, massage, and heat / water / ice / electrical / light stimulation.