Sentences with phrase «back vertebrae»

Labelled «unco - operative and continually complaining» in an August 2015 letter from the Board, Mr O'Connor was denied compensation for symptoms other than those associated with his lower back vertebrae, with the claim by the Board that they were caused by pre-existing conditions.

The spinal cord is protected by the vertebrae, which are divided into the neck, back, and lower back vertebrae, as well as the sacrum and the tailbone.

A tight psoas can cause serious postural problems: when you stand up, it pulls the low back vertebrae forward and down toward the femur, often resulting in lordosis (overarching in the lumbar spine), which is a common cause of low back pain and stiffness; it can also contribute to arthritis in the lumbar facet joints.

At the time of birth, the neck and back vertebrae can go out of alignment due to the stretching and compressing of your baby while emerging into the world.

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He shared that people no longer search general terms like «back pain» and instead search for their specific condition, down to the particular vertebrae.

Trauma - room surgeons had operated to stabilize a dislocated vertebra in the middle of his back, he learned.

Little Hugh Ambrose had managed to manoeuvre himself into such an awkward position that the back of his head battered against the base of my spine with every contraction, making me feel as though someone was smashing my vertebrae with a hammer whilst some other invisible assailant kicked me in the stomach with hobnailed boots.

But before that could be done, the tumor on her back — which ate away the vertebra until it collapsed, creating extreme pain and threatening to cause paralysis — would have to be removed.

But there, hurtling over the second jump at high speed, Spider caught his arm on a gate, somersaulted onto the back of his neck in an explosion of snow and skis and fractured a vertebra in his back.

Out since March 4with a broken vertebra in his neck, Cole began plotting his return on theThursday flight back to Edmonton.

Out since March 4 with a broken vertebra in his neck, Cole began PLOTTING HIS RETURN on the flight back to Edmonton.

MRIs eventually revealed the culprit: a pair of cracks in one of the hingelike joints that link his vertebrae, requiring intensive back surgery in November 2009.

In the third game of the preseason, Romo broke a vertebra in his back and in turn, opened the door for rookie QB Dak Prescott.

«There are a number of defensive backs in the league with fewer neck vertebrae because of it.»

The athlete should visualize each vertebrae of the spine coming off the ground like a train leaving the station and the same thing on the way down, visualize the train coming back one vertebrae at a time.

As a high school sophomore he had been smashed down as he dropped back to pass, suffering a dislocated vertebrae in his back.

Kittle had injured his neck in 1977 and undergone surgery to fuse two vertebrae; because he tried to come back too soon, he hit.213 for three Dodger farm clubs in 1977 and» 78.

Make sure to have them visualize each vertebrae of the spine coming off the ground like a train leaving the station and the same thing on the way down, visualize the train coming back one vertebrae at a time.

A blow of some sort underneath the mask can cause a whiplash in the back of the neck, in the area of the cervical vertebrae.

Speight has to wear a back brace due to cracked vertebrae, and admits that immediately after he was hit he thought he was paralyzed.

Borussia Dortmund head to the Serie A sales If the scribes at Gazzetta dello Sport are correct, the Westfalen club are about to make a 10 million euro offer to Napoli for right - back, Juan Camilo Zuniga, the Colombian whose wayward challenge on Neymar at the last World Cup put the Brazilian star in hospital with a fractured vertebrae.

Comfortable — This pillow does not only give you comfort, but it also helps to reduce neck and back pain by helping you align your vertebra.

An anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist performs this form of anesthesia; the procedure starts with a local anesthetic, followed by the insertion of a long needle (used to guide a thin catheter) between two of the lower lumbar vertebrae in your low back.

According to The Joint, dehydration can lead to back pain and it can even thin out the discs that cushion the vertebrae in your spine.

Lumbar Support: The part of the lower back where the spine curves is known as the lumbar area and this brave set of vertebrae takes on the majority of pressure when we sit.

Back pain became a problem too, though it took him two years to link it to damage to four vertebrae.

Instead they fuse with vertebrae and bony plates in the skin of its back to form a shell.

The modern practice of chiropractic began when Daniel David Palmer, a self - styled «magnetic healer,» claimed to have restored the hearing of a deaf man by popping one of his vertebra back into place in 1895.

Humans prone to certain back problems have vertebrae closer in shape to those of a chimpanzee than those of pain - free humans.

• Remains believed to be those of his brother demonstrated fusion of thefourth and fifth vertebrae of the lower back, which might have been dueto arthritis of the spine, and incomplete spina bifida.

Concavenator corcovatus, which belonged to the theropod group of dinosaurs, has a pair of vertebrae five times longer than the others, which protrude midway along its back to make a triangular fin.

I was in the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires when I came across a vertebra from a dinosaur's back.

It had a fully developed plastron (the belly portion of a turtle's shell), but only a partial carapace made up of distinctively broadened ribs and vertebrae on its back.

Its lower back was mobile and probably had six lumbar vertebrae rather than the three to four seen in the stiff backs of African apes.

Chupkaornis has a unique combination of characteristics: finger - like projected tibiofibular crest of femur; deep, emarginated lateral excavation with the sharply defined edge of the ventral margin of that the thoracic vertebrae (those vertebrae in the upper back); and the heterocoelous articular surface of the thoracic vertebrae.

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin examined 19 pregnant women and discovered a number of reinforcements in their backs that men lack, including a lumbar (lower back) curve that spans three instead of two vertebrae and spinal joints that are 14 percent larger and positioned differently.

Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, we have various bits of Timurlengia's skeleton, including part of the snout and jaws, some teeth, various vertebrae of the neck, back and tail, and fragments of the hands and feet.

A compressed and herniated disk, in which the rubbery cushion between vertebrae impinges on and irritates nearby nerves, is a major cause of low back pain that can radiate to the legs.

Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human connection to marine organisms that goes back millions of years.

The species name xenarthrosus refers to the odd way the creature's spinal vertebrae interlock and stiffen the back, similar to modern - day armadillos, anteaters, and other mammals in a group called xenarthrans.

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WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human connection to marine organisms that goes back millions of years.

Contact: [email protected]; 508-289-7139 WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human connection to marine organisms that goes back millions of years.

One of the most striking differences between the wild boar and the domesticated pig is that the latter has a considerably longer back, including more vertebrae.

A common effect of multiple myeloma is osteoporosis, and as a consequence patients develop intense back pain as their vertebrae become compressed as well as bone fractures.

Press your lower back into the mat and begin to roll up one vertebrae at a time.

Reverse the movement by slowly rolling back one vertebrae at a time until you are lying flat on the floor.

In the case of back pain, giving time for your muscles to release can allow your vertebrae and discs to align properly, and healing to proceed more easily.

The latissimus dorsi is a major upper back muscle that connects the vertebrae in the thorax and lumbar regions and the iliac crest of the hip bone to the humerus bone of the upper arm.

Traditional situps do little to flatten your abdominal muscles, and also overtrain your hip flexors, the long muscles that attach your thighs to the lumbar vertebrae along your spine in your lower back.