Sentences with phrase «as thoracic»

Functions as a primary scrub person on all surgical procedures, handling instruments, supplies, and equipment during all surgical procedures such as thoracic, vascular, orthopedic, neurosurgery, EENT, etc., from simple to complex cases.

Upper Back — Pain originating from the neck and / or upper spinal column (also known as thoracic spine injury — the region where your spine connects to your ribs) can cause severe pain and permanent impairment.

SM may result in other neurological deficits such as thoracic limb weakness and muscle atrophy (due to ventral horn cell damage) and pelvic limb ataxia and weakness (due to white matter damage or involvement of the lumbar spinal cord by the syrinx).

Please note that foam rolling exercises such as thoracic rotation requires the use of a 26» foam roller.

Pressing deviations mainly come from poor abdominal as well as thoracic spine health.

As a thoracic surgeon, I specialize in operating on organs in this area and often review cases with colleagues.

Not exact matches

As golfers, movement through the hips, core (thoracic spine), and shoulders are extremely important.

The purpose of this this 0 - 3 month old baby massage complex is first of all to train baby's body for different movements, reduce high tone of flexor muscles of hands and feet, as well as the active development of cervical spine, strengthening the upper thoracic spine muscles and shoulder girdle.

Women who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Criner, who served as the study's Principal Investigator, will report the results on May 18 at the American Thoracic Society's annual international scientific meeting in San Diego, with simultaneous publication of the findings online in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The remarkable specimen — which includes nine skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent.»

It looks as though the squeals of dominant stallions reflect their greater lung capacity and stronger thoracic muscles, say the researchers.

Kim and colleagues are interested in studying the activation mechanism of protein kinase G I (PKG I) because a mutation of PKG I has been shown to cause thoracic aortic disease, as Kim and his collaborators showed in a previous publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

According to a 2013 joint statement by the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society, exercise training, as part of pulmonary rehabilitation, has demonstrated improvement in quality of life in COPD patients.

In a study published in the open access scientific journal eLife, Roberto A. Keller and Patrícia Beldade from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal), in collaboration with Christian Peeters from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France), showed that ants grow the size of their thoracic segments differently according to the specialized tasks they will perform as adults.

Nationally recognized leaders in the thoracic surgery field, our surgeons routinely treat individuals who have complex disease and / or coexisting medical problems as well as patients who have had previous thoracic surgical procedures.

As recommended by the CDC, we are working to alert any adult or pediatric patients who underwent a surgical procedure with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), including cardiac surgery, general thoracic surgery, or vascular surgery from June 2011 to August 2016 about the very small risk of infection with NTM.

Wake Forest Baptist's cardiothoracic team and surgeons deliver exceptional results for all types of heart conditions through procedures such as aortic valve replacements, heart bypass surgery, heart transplants and surgeries and therapies for thoracic aneurysms.

He served as president of the Association of Professors of Medicine, the leading society for chairpersons of academic departments of medicine in the United States, and is a past president of the 13,000 - member American Thoracic Society, the premier subspecialty organization for those in the field of respiratory medicine, critical care, and sleep - disordered breathing.

As a result, five - year survival is less than 7 percent across all stages,» says Lauren Byers, MD, lead investigator on the study and associate professor of Thoracic Head & Neck Medical Oncology.

For patients and caregivers who have undergone an esophagectomy, this group was created by the nurses of the thoracic surgery department with the mission to be a source of information and support for patients and their families as they navigate the recovery process.

Many technological innovations for diagnosis and treatment are expected to reach the clinic following validation, such as video - assisted thoracic surgery, sensitive imaging techniques, use of tracer gases, regenerative medicine (e.g. in lung transplantation), nanoparticle - based carriers of inhalational drugs or bioactive compounds, personalised medicine (especially for lung cancer), bronchoplasty, laser energy as a surgical tool, and metabolic imaging techniques.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

Led by Christiana Davis, MD, (in collaboration with Dr. Peter Gabriel, Chief Oncology Informatics Officer and Abigail Doucette, MPH, Research Registry Program Manager), the Thoracic TCE has established project - based databases to track the demographics and response status of patients to immune - oncology treatments, as well as acquired resistance to standard therapies and novel targeted immunotherapies.

Saphenous vein or mammary / thoracic artery was obtained from left over pieces (1 — 3 cm long) that are generally discarded (incinerated) as «biological waste» after cardiac bypass surgery.

As the director of thoracic medical oncology at Perlmutter Cancer Center, I work to bring promising new therapies to people who have lung cancer.

He recently completed his tenure as a Director of the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a past president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Lengthen through the thoracic spine as you continue reaching through the crown of your head.

Here, Michael Niederman, MD, American Thoracic Society member and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, fills Health in on all things pneumonia, and what factors the American public should focus on as Clinton recovers.

This is for creating mobility in the thoracic spine, also known as the upper and middle back.

sir in my medical result the radiologist mark my xray as incidental dextroscoliosis thoracic spine.

Usually this occurs in the thoracic spine, with the midspine curving to the right as if to avoid the heart.

Curves can also be defined as left thoracic scoliosis or right thoracic scoliosis.

The right lymphatic duct collects lymph from the right arm and the right portion of the head, neck, and chest while the thoracic duct (also known as the left lymphatic duct) collects lymph from the rest of the body.

The most common related complaints I see are sharp, piercing pain at the right fourth rib (where it connects to the fourth thoracic vertebrae) sometimes extending upward into the neck and resulting in neck pain as well; knee pain; and digestive disturbances.

As we take a sharp breath in to expand the chest, we throw the head back to extend the thoracic spine and open the rib cage.

Begin with a slight pelvic tilt (pubic bone moves toward navel), press feet into the floor, lift hips up to knee height (or as high as your flexibility allows), contract (squeeze) your glutes (butt), hands and arms press into the floor for additional hip height and thoracic / spinal extension.

As the heavy head slowly drops forward and down, the scapulae externally rotate and protract, increasing thoracic kyphosis and flattening of lumbar lordosis.

As the elbows begin to land in the rack position, the heels are lowered and the thoracic spine rounded to safely diffuse the load.

Initiate the pull by extending your thoracic spine as you flex the elbow, attempting to pull the weight into your abdomen as quickly as possible.

The other function of the diaphragm is to help widen the thoracic cavity to create space for the breath in the sides of the body which also becomes more difficult to achieve as the weight of the abdomen increases and pulls downwards.

Shoulder mobility can limit your ability to load overhead, and your upper back mobility - thoracic mobility - may be to blame as well.

Taking the trunk as multiple segments, List et al. (2013) found that peak thoracic trunk angle was greater when artificially restricting forward knee motion using visual cues compared to unrestricted squats, and peak lumbar trunk angle displayed a non-significant trend in the same direction.

The thoracic spine also happens to be an area that tends to become less mobile as we age.

So in Downward dog, for example, we would avoid pulling the chest toward the thighs and instead focus on breathing into the upper back AS IF you were trying to inflate your thoracic curve and make it more pronounced.

Less range of motion in the Thoracic region can cause increased range of motion in the Cervical (neck) and Lumbar (lower) spine, which can become problematic over time as these more flexible regions of the spine begin to over compensate.

Overheads are fantastic for thoracic mobility an also for teaching how to «sit between your feet» as opposed to «folding over.»

If you have a right thoracic or right thoracolumbar curve, press with the right hand and rotate the left lumbar area forward.For a right thoracic curve, press with the right hand into the back of the chair as you move the right shoulder away from it.

Referral from the Thoracic spine is very uncommon and is usually the result of degenerative disc disease or metabolic conditions such as diabetes mellitus.

in most yoga we do less flexion / rounding of the lower back, we do a lot of hip hinging, lot of neutral spine in most of the poses, some extension when we do belly down back bends or bridge + as a result the lower back is not getting its full potential rom, as we are suppose to be able to flex the lower lumbar to about 40degrees, thoracic about 45 degrees.