Sentences with phrase «at my hip bone»

Simply measure the vertical distance from your neck (the bony bump at the base of your neck) to your the center of your back at the hip bones.

It also ends at a descent length (right at my hip bone).

The topline is not to be mistaken for a roached back, nor is it a swayback, with the highest point at the hip bones.

Not exact matches

Now at 86 have fallen very hard on my hips 3 times and not broken a bone or even been sore.

- strengthening the upper body and core muscles for other gross motor tasks - strengthening the upper body and core muscles to create a stable base for fine motor skills - developing stability in the bones of the shoulder joint (the ball and socket joints of the shoulders and hips are shallow and unstable at birth but are molded into stronger, more stable joints through weight - bearing)- visual development to quickly shift focus from near to far - hand - eye - coordination - providing plentiful early opportunities for motor planning (movement problem - solving)- refining balance - integrating the movement (vestibular), pressure & stretch (proprioceptive), visual and touch (tactile) sensory systems - learning to coordinate movements where two sides of the body are doing different movements - learning to coordinate upper body and lower body movements - developing body awareness and spatial awareness - fostering independence

To stay relaxed with back labor, try counterpressure on the sacrum (the triangular bone at the base of the spine) or a technique called the double hip squeeze.

If the vehicle seat belt is at your child's belly rather than below the hip bones and touching the thighs, he could suffer damage to internal organs and / or a spinal injury if a crash occurs.

At the healthy hip socket, the bone was billiard ball smooth.

Genetics may explain why some senior athletes are high functioning despite having one or both hip abnormalities typically associated with early onset osteoarthritis (OA): developmental dislocation of the hip (dysplasia), a loose hip joint; or femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), a condition in which the hip bones are abnormally shaped, according to new research presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

A new study published today in The Lancet reveals that a simple questionnaire, combined with bone mineral density measurements for some, would help identify those at risk of hip fracture.

The authors measured hip and spine bone mineral density (BMD) at 12 and 24 months, as well as adverse events, which included falls.

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

«This new MRI greatly improves the visualization of bone and soft tissue when there is metal in a joint, such as the screws used to repair a hip fracture,» explained Hollis G. Potter, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Imaging at HSS.

For all three groups, researchers measured bone mineral content and density in the spine, neck, hip and the whole body, and looked at current height and weight, smoking, level of physical activity and a variety of other measures.

The DXA scans evaluated bone mineral density, a surrogate measurement of bone strength, as well as bone mineral content, which is the weight of bone, at both the hip and the lumbar spine (lower back).

Among stimulant users, the average bone mineral content at the lumbar spine was 5.1 percent lower than in nonusers and 5.3 percent lower at the hip, the investigators reported.

In both studies, patients receiving TAF experienced a significantly smaller mean percentage decrease from baseline in hip and spine bone mineral density at week 48 (p < 0.001), and had smaller changes in renal tubular markers (p < 0.001) than TDF.

The study did find, however, that bone density decreased by as much as 4 % (particularly in the lumbar spine, hip and shin) during the first 4 months after childbirth, but only if the lactation period lasted for at least that long.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

One variant was also associated with bone mineral density in the thigh bone at the hip (the «neck» of the femur).

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital are extracting stem cells from the bone marrow of patients in need of hip repair...

The remains contain an estimated 20 percent of the carnivorous dinosaur — which lived 145 - 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period — including an intact skull, vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones.

Other researchers noted some critical bones were missing or shaped slightly differently than the same bones in humans today and from this they concluded Lucy walked with bent knees and her upper body bent forward slightly at the hips.

The SI joint (sacroiliac joint), located between the sacrum (tail bone) and iliac bone (hip bone), at the lower end of the spine is often overlooked, but can be a culprit.

Bone mineral density (BMD) of lumbar spine, forearm, hip, and whole body was assessed at baseline and at the end of the study using dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry.

They're called hip flexors because they create flexion in the hip, which is the technical term for a bending movement around a joint in a limb (such as the knee or elbow) that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint.

Place your palms on your belly, starting at the lower left corner just medial to (or slightly to the right of) your hip bone.

They're called hip flexors because they create flexion in the hip, which is the technical term for a bending movement around a joint in a limb that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint (such as the knee or elbow).

Ball - and - socket joints, like those at the hip and shoulder, allow the greatest range of movement as the rounded end of one bone fits into the hollow or socket of another bone, separated by elastic cartilage.

Waist measurements were taken at the midpoint between the lowest rib and the top of the hip bone (iliac crest), with the use of a standardized technique (20).

Many people slouch in a chair and roll back and sit on the lower tailbone and sacral area instead of aligning their hips and ribs so they can balance on the sit bones at the base of the pelvis.

It begins at the hip and extends to the outer side of the shin bone (tibia) just below the knee joint.

Osteoporosis is a condition where the bones have lost so much of their mass that sufferers are at an increased risk of fracturing their bones, especially the spine, hip and wrist.

Other joints, like the hip and glenohurmeral joint, allow for mobility at the articulation (where two bones meet) and ideally create an uninhibited range of motion around the joint.

Hinge at hips and lower sitting bones.

As a result of being Vitamin D deficient, my hip bones are at the bottom of osteopenia, almost to osteoporosis.

Place your hands on your hips and put your thumbs on your sacrum, the broad triangular bone at the base of your spine.

Rules to sit by: Line up head over shoulders and shoulders over hips, rest on your «sitz bones» (the two bones in your rear end), and place feet flat on the floor with legs at a 90 - degree angle.

The gluteus medius attaches to the leg at the top of the femur (thigh bone), close to the hip joint, on a bony prominence called the greater trochanter.

Get a cloth tape measure (or some yarn and a yard stick) and determine the size of your shoulders right at the top (to where it's almost popping off); your bust at the fullest point (without squishing); then measure your waist just above your belly button; and your hips — slightly below your hip bone and around the biggest part of your bum.

The top seam of the peplum should hit at your natural waist — that's the skinniest part on any figure — and the end of the peplum should graze your hip bone.

If you have full busts however, you won't look good in fitted tees so instead, opt for skimming cotton that hits at high hips or hip bone.

Of course, you don't want to see all of the ribs or protruding hip bones, but you might be surprised at how thin your dog really should be.

Makes some pretty good dog foods, and we wanted to include this formula because any dachshund owner needs at least one dog food with bone and joint supplements (remember, they're prone to hip and knee problems!).

Working with veterinarians skilled in reading the subtleties of X-ray images, the Hip Dysplasia Registry of the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, assigns nine variations of congruity and fit between the femoral head (top of the thigh bone) and the acetabulum (hollow area in the pelvic bone into which the thigh bone fits):

I forewarned the family because when I picked him up at the vet, honestly... I couldn't believe how skinny he was — you could literally count every rib and clearly see his hip bones.

Practices such as these have been disastrous, leading to bones and muscle growing at different rates and creating assorted joint diseases of which hip dysplasia is one.

The structures of the hip joint are cartilage at birth and only become bone as the puppy grows.

The thigh bone (femur) is connected to the pelvis at the hip joint.