Sentences with phrase «as rotator»

A free throw in basketball involves the upper body muscles, such as the rotator cuff muscles, coracobrachialis, latissimus dorsi, biceps brachii, brachioradialis, triceps brachii, anconeus and pronator teres.

Smaller muscles such as the rotator cuff can handle and support only so much load without creating unnecessary strain.

External Rotations with the resistance bands are often used as rotator cuff tendonitis exercises.

The following exercises show examples of moves targeting the shoulders — the front, middle, and rear deltoids as well as the rotator cuff muscles.

There are four main muscles which rotate the humerus bone known as the rotator cuff muscles.

Form: Exhale as you rotator your arm out to the side and away from your body.

If your form is bad, have in mind that performing shrugs incorrectly can increase your susceptibility to injuries such as rotator cuff tears, back and neck strains and muscle tears.

A former deputy NSF director who is familiar with the case worries that the incident could cause many scientists and engineers thinking of coming to NSF as a rotator to rethink such a move.

As a rotator rather than a civil servant, however, she had nobody watching her back.

She accepted the offer and worked at NSF as a rotator until she lost her job this spring.

But it also included an explicit warning: «In the absence of such documents, we will advise our peers against service as rotators.»

For these sorts of extremely low load high velocity movements, where smaller muscle groups are the prime movers (such as the rotators and deltoids), maximum effort work should be more directed towards the core, with the athlete concentrating on high resistance abdominal rotations and back / shoulder movements to build up the structures that support the arm.

Not exact matches

I just had rotator cuff surgery, twice, due to a 20ft fall as a firefighter.

Ozzie, Jose's fraternal twin, was drafted as a hard - throwing righthanded pitcher by the Yankees in 1983, tore his rotator cuff three years later and lost 10 mph off his 90 - mph - plus fastball.

Manny Pacquiao will undergo surgery for a torn right rotator cuff with the injury described as a «significant tear,» according to a report from Dan Rafael of ESPN.

It wasn't until I tore both shoulders over time, and then became a trainer, that I looked back on my career and noticed something I wish I'd known earlier: If you don't STABILIZE the shoulder joint by purposely training the four rotator cuff muscles when doing heavy lifts with your big primary muscles (Pectorals, deltoids, Traps, and lats), then you are leaving yourself vulnerable to potential injury as the years progress on.

Shoulder injuries may include rotator cuff impingement «'' pressure on the rotator cuff from part of the shoulder blade or scapula as the arm is lifted.

He had been a 14 - year - old baseball prodigy with an 87mph fastball until the rotator - cuff injury ended his days as a pitcher.

Andrews is now a «rotator» at the National Science Foundation (NSF), serving as the director of the Division of Computer and Network Systems.

As an adult, though, he wanted to explain the mysterious cures he observed in his youth — such as his father's healed rotator cufAs an adult, though, he wanted to explain the mysterious cures he observed in his youth — such as his father's healed rotator cufas his father's healed rotator cuff.

Some rotators see it as an opportunity to have a greater impact on the direction science takes; others see it as a break from faculty careers that have come to seem monotonous.

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

He characterizes their intent to raise the issue with potential rotators as tantamount to blackmail: «It is so disappointing, therefore, that you tell us that if we do not acquiesce to your «requests», you and your colleagues will personally tell other potential rotators not to come to NSF.»

As Klimchuk explains, «We're concerned about what might happen to future rotators.»

As an NSF «rotator» she managed a variety of programs, including one that provides scholarships for those studying how to combat cyberterrorism.

The worries have triggered three reports by NSF's in - house watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (IG), that have revealed, among other things, that a rotator can cost NSF as much as 23 % more than a regular government employee doing the same job.

«Our point was that rotators don't enjoy the same protections as regular civil servants,» he says.

This type of minor damage, called «subfailure damage,» is associated with common injuries to connective tissues such as ligament and meniscus tears and various types of tendinitis such as tennis elbow and rotator cuff tendinopathy.

As a very young high - mass star, Achernar is a fast rotator with a rotational period of hours and a substantial magnetic field around one kG.

As we mentioned above, those include the delts, rotator cuff muscles and the scapula, all of which are usually neglected in a typical upper body routine.

(Fit Tip: Be sure that your elbows do not come up higher than 90 degrees, as this puts added strain on the rotator cuff.)

As an athlete, you probably have experienced (or at least heard of) a rotator cuff tear or low back pain.

The stretching sessions used 15 various stretching exercises, such as stretches of the hamstrings and hip rotators and flexors.

Today, our rotator cuffs and upper back muscles are weaker than ever, and this common issue poses a serious threat in the gym, where many bodybuilders are looking to squat as heavy as possible and use overhead pressing to develop strong upper bodies, disregarding the fact that these two compound exercises require a very tight and stable upper back.

During arm abduction, when we're moving it outward and away from our body, the rotator cuff compresses the glenohumeral joint, which is also known as concavity compression, so that it can allow the deltoid muscle to elevate the arm further.

As your arm is raised overhead and gets pushed to its limit, the space where your rotator cuff tendons and shoulder sub-acromial space (shoulder bursa) reside becomes smaller, so if you feel pain in your shoulder while performing this motion, it's most likely caused by impingement of the tendons or the shoulder bursa in that area of your shoulder.

Reverse Flyes — Reverse flyes target small muscles in the back known as the «teres minor», part of the rotator cuff.

He is also one of the few physicians in the world with extensive experience in the use of adult stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries such as torn ACLs, injured rotator cuffs, and more.

Rotator cuff muscles are important in shoulder stability, especially if your are experiencing shoulder pain from former injuries, such as dislocations and impingement syndromes.

Strength training experts and triathlon coaches always seem to be highlighting the injury - preventive and performance importance of tending to small, supportive muscles that are notoriously weak in endurance athletes, such as the shoulder's rotator cuff, the outer butt's gluteus medius, the small scapula muscles along the shoulder blades, and the abdominal, hip and low back region, or «core» (15).

Exercises will include drawing your pelvic floor up into your pelvic outlet and holding it for endurance as well as short, quick contractions; strengthening your lower abdominals (transversus abdominus) while drawing your pelvic floor up toward your belly button; and also strengthening the support muscles of your deep hip rotators, your lower back and your inner thighs.

One of the most common injuries I've treated as a structural alignment practitioner has been rotator cuff injuries.

Besides working the anterior delts, the exercise also requires the activation of a number of stabilizing muscles such as the trapezius, erector spinae, biceps, rotator cuff and serratus anterior.

If your primary objective is increasing your back's width, go for wide - grip lat pull - downs, as they better stimulate the teres major and upper - lat fibers, in addition to working the biceps, forearms, triceps, rotator cuff muscles and posterior deltoids.

This routine will target all three heads of your shoulders as well as your trapezius muscle and your rotator cuff as well.

Kristen has first hand experience with SI joint instability, rotator cuff injuries, trauma, as well as anxiety / depression conditions improving with the use of yogic tools.

Before we talk about how to fix a hurt rotator cuff, let me say that the information in this article is for informational purposes and is not intended as medical advice.

As well as strengthening the lateral rotators, stretching muscles at the back of the shoulder is importanAs well as strengthening the lateral rotators, stretching muscles at the back of the shoulder is importanas strengthening the lateral rotators, stretching muscles at the back of the shoulder is important.

Your rotator, trapezius, serratus anterior, and abdominals all contract to keep your shoulders, core, and hips stable as you perform the move.

I looked at my injury as an opportunity to work on upper body strengthening — something that I still needed to focus on after having rotator cuff repair on both shoulders years ago.