Sentences with phrase «fracture by»

To treat his injury, the doctors stabilized Knight's fracture by placing his leg in a cast to enable it to heal.

The doctor repaired the fracture by inserting a pin down the shaft of the bone and also applying a plate on the outside of the bone to further stabilize the fracture.

For non-fiction I think there will be an increasing tendency for the market to fracture by niche enabling authors at the micro and more modest level to prosper.

Learn how PERQUE Vessel Health Guard can play a role in reducing risk factors for osteoporotic fracture by reducing homocysteine (HCY) levels.

Each additional cup of skim milk consumed per day reduced runners» incidence of developing a stress fracture by 62 percent, according to a study from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

«The simultaneous improvement in functional performance suggests our exercise program provides dual protection from osteoporotic fracture by also preventing falls.»

Compared to tests using dummies with no helmets, leading football helmets reduced the risk of skull fracture by 60 to 70 percent and reduced the risk of focal brain tissue bruising by 70 to 80 percent.

The use of benzodiazepines and related drugs increases the risk of hip fracture by 43 % in persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

«The fact that we even have to clarify this is proof of how democracy continues to be fractured by people who manipulate and fabricate the truth,» he said.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

Hun accepted Brewster's apology and backed off his calls to have AIM kicked out of the country, but the incident highlights the fragile relationship faith - based nonprofits have with the countries in which they operate, and how easily that relationship can be fractured by even minute errors.

The classical Christian synthesis of the power of God and the love of God — forged in those formative years of contact with Greek philosophy, hammered out by Augustine and Aquinas and other giants of Christian thought, fractured by the critiques of Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche and their comrades in intellectual arms — was smashed to pieces by the overwhelming human devastation that was the Holocaust.

It was a time of conflict, of separation and fissures growing ever fractured by the day.

For years, the Senate's Democratic caucus has been fractured by infighting between the traditional Democrats and the IDC, which enjoyed an unusual power - sharing arrangement with the Senate's Republican leaders.

Your dear party is going to be so fractured by primary challenges by total loons you'll be lucky if they don't lose a whole lot of what were once safe seats for them.

There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.

Macrophages were dry - fractured by touching the cell surface with cellophane tape after critical point drying to reveal intracellular bacteria.

GRAIL's discoveries include the fact that the moon's crust is thinner and more fractured by meteorite impacts than scientists had suspected (SN Online: 12/6/12).

Another possibility is that the area was fractured by the impact that created Endeavour Crater, then rock dikes filled the fractures, and we're seeing effects of wind erosion on those filled fractures.»

Opponents of the tests have warned that potentially harmful radioisotopes, especially caesium - 137, strontium - 90 and plutonium isotopes, will leach from rocks fractured by the blasts.

Fortunately, later in the day, I recovered my voice but my field had been fractured by this trauma that magnified and re-enforced public speaking performance anxiety.

Can yoga reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures by reducing fall risk?

There is good, solid scientific evidence that fluoridated drinking water increases your risk of hip fractures by 20 - 40 %.

I forget what those little nodules on the spine are called, but they can be fractured by rolling up and down on the spine.

The findings are that high doses or long - term use of these drugs may increase the risk for hip, wrist, and spine fractures by about 25 % and can more than double the risk of contracting the intestinal bacterium Clostridium difficile.

Alfalfa sprouts are a great source of vitamin K (phylloquinone), which promotes coagulation, as well as preventing osteoporosis and reducing the risk of fractures by improving bones mineral density.

Seven of those trials also reported fractures and found that vitamin K2 reduced spinal fractures by 60 %, hip fractures by 77 % and all non-spinal fractures by 81 % (16).

In the same year, the European Food Safety Authority also approved a dietary supplement health claim for calcium and vitamin D and the reduction of the risk of osteoporotic fractures by reducing bone loss.

Osteoporosis medications prevent fractures by increasing bone density and reducing the rate of bone resorption.

Research shows that flexion exercises increased the risk of fractures by 89 % while extension exercises significantly lowered the risk of fractures to just 16 %.

It's not like you're going to sustain a concussion and several compound fractures by throwing up a profile on a dating site.

It's not like you're going to sustain a concussion and several compound fractures by...

The Support is also fractured by where you live.

The great divide between our beliefs, our ideals, and reality Support is also fractured by where you live.

Soon the once pleasant town is fractured by confrontations between the black and whites and the coloureds.

Catherine Hardwicke's «Miss You Already» is a joyous exploration of the friendship between two lifelong friends who share everything (oddly enough, even the loss of their virginity — don't ask), until the friendship becomes fractured by illness and a pregnancy.

This will reunite the team she says is fractured by the new policy of catering to the ratings.

And while the Avengers might have been fractured by the events of Civil War, it's once again their duty and task to stand for all of mankind and every other species, as the only beings capable of solving a problem like Thanos.

As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013's mass closures.

Load limiters allow some belt spoolout after the initial impact to reduce belt - force - related thoracic injuries such as rib fractures by allowing people to «ride down» deflating front airbags.

In a world fractured by the effects of environmental degradation, political turmoil, and economic crises, it is easy to forget that cultures of peace depend on good governance and equitable management of our natural resources.

Both his skull and upper jaw had been fractured by a blow, or a series of them.

Laser therapy utilizes cutting edge technology to speed up the healing of wounds, incisions and fractures by increasing circulation and cellular transport and by reducing inflammation and pain.

Even the intense parkour sequences are fractured by poor game design such as the ability to consume energy rich drinks or food while mid-climb.

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

She experienced a childhood fractured by violence and displacement.

Mona Hatoum creates work that evokes the growing unease of a world that seems ever - expanding and as technologically networked as it is politically fractured by war and exile.

His paintings roil with vibrant action that lives just beneath and atop the surface, contained and fractured by the two - dimensional confines of the canvas.

They play with our gaze - inviting it in here, barring it there, tangling it up where the sky is fractured by shooting branches or in a pattern of hatched brushstrokes; slowing it down with thick impasto where it is inclined to linger.

The video, frantic in pace, with rapidly changing camera angles, is amusing but nothing to write home about, and dangerously plays into the platitude that such frenetic camerawork somehow sheds light upon our goldfishlike attention spans, supposedly fractured by the new omnipresence of advanced technology.