Sentences with phrase «including flexion»

Van Norman, however, points out that some exhibit spinal automatism, a complex spectrum of movements including flexion of limbs and trunk, stepping motions, grasping motions, and head turning.

In general, we each need spinal mobility that includes flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation.

Not exact matches

The mechanism of labor and birth — physically and psychically including the Holistic Stages of Labor, the relevance of cervical dilation, the descent, flexion and rotation of the baby and the emotional and physical signs of labor progressing.

Goose bumps, shivering, extensor movements of the arms, rapid flexion of the elbows, elevation of the arms above the bed, crossing of the hands, reaching of the hands toward the neck, forced exhalation, and thoracic respiratory - like movements... These complex sequential movements are felt to be release phenomena from the spinal cord including the upper cervical cord and do not [emphasis author's] mean that the patient is no longer brain dead.»

The function of the lats include extension, adduction, horizontal adduction, flexion, and internal rotation of the shoulder joint.

This usually includes; forearm flexion and extensions, farmer's walk, dead hangs, and the use of hand grippers.

Examples of Beginner Pilates exercises that promote hip / leg differentiation — getting a nice flexion at the hip while keeping the pelvis stable include knee folds, single leg stretch, and leg kick front and back.

In this video I will show you how to mobilize your ankles including toe flexion and extension, ankle glides, inversion and eversion and ankle rotations.

Movement is very limited for this joint, but includes nutation or anterior tilt (flexion) of the sacrum between the ilia, counternutation or posterior tilt (extension) and small movements of the ilia themselves.

My favorite core workout includes a variety of stability, rotation, back extension, and lateral flexion.

Performing plantar - flexion exercises with an extended knee position, including dorsiflexed positions and faster speeds appears beneficial for training the gastrocnemius.

The exercises with the use of these ankle weights included seated knee flexion and extension and standing knee flexion and extension.

Lower - body exercises included leg extension and hip flexion.

If you are training a lot of forward spinal flexion you should also include back extension as part of your movement practice.

You can have tone in all of your abdominals and that includes the six pack abs but what is important is that they are wired to contract in a lengthened way that contributes more to stabilization of the spine than flexion.

They can be done for a range of different shoulder movmements to strengthen the muscles around the entire joint including adduction, abduction, flexion, extension and rotation.

A balanced workout would include a modest number of spinal flexion exercises and, then, only if you have a healthy back, as well as few rotation exercises to target the obliques.

Studying more from a biomechanics teacher, she found that many yoga students (myself included) have developed too much extension in lower lumbar / sway back and have lost ability for flexion.

Upper body pressing exercises typically include elbow extension in addition to horizontal flexion — i.e. bench pressing — or shoulder flexion — i.e. shoulder pressing.

Myers et al. (2005) compared a number of different rehabilitation exercises performed with elastic tubing including internal and external rotation, rowing and combinations of shoulder flexion, adduction and extension.

In general, it seems that compound exercises that include shoulder horizontal flexion feature as the best exercises for creating overall pectoralis major activity.

Assessing the effect of stability during both compound and trunk flexion exercises, Mok et al. (2014) assessed the muscle activity of the abdominals in a number of suspension exercises including the hip abduction plank (feet in straps), press up, inverted row and hamstring curl (feet in straps).

Key shoulder movements that involve the pectoralis major include shoulder horizontal adduction (moving the arms together in the transverse plane at shoulder height), shoulder adduction (moving the arms down to the sides, from shoulder height), shoulder scapular flexion or extension (moving the arms to or from shoulder height in the scapular plane in front of the body), and shoulder flexion or extension (moving the arms to or from shoulder height in front of the body).

Comparing isolation exercises, Schoenfeld et al. (2014) assessed variations of the plank exercise including the traditional plank, long lever plank (greater flexion of the shoulder), traditional plank with posterior pelvic tilt, and long lever plank with posterior pelvic tilt.

Comparing compound exercises and trunk flexion exercises, Aspe et al. (2014) explored rectus abdominis muscle activity in a number of exercises including the front and overhead squat performed with 90 % of 3RM, as well as the swiss ball jack knife and straight - leg sit up.

From a review of the literature, it is immediately apparent that very few studies have included any rehabilitation exercises in the hip extension and knee flexion, and hip extension without knee movement categories.

Traditional (not force vector - specific) alternatives include trap bar deadlift jumps and jump squats, and these may also be necessary for developing the adductor magnus, which has a larger moment arm in greater hip flexion.

The researchers this time compared a number of exercises that utilised the upper - body weight as leverage including static inverted row, L - sit, trunk extension (static horizontal back extension), static lateral flexion of the trunk (static horizontal flexion).

PROM exercises are performed by pushing or pulling on the lower part of the limb to induce flexion or extension in a target joint.26 They are typically performed in patients with stiffness secondary to surgery or in patients unable to walk on their own.27 The benefits of PROM include prevention of joint contracture and soft tissue adaptive shortening, maintenance of mobility between soft tissue layers, reduced pain, enhanced blood and lymphatic flow, and improved synovial fluid production and diffusion.28

Patients with PL commonly have compensatory postures (FIGURE 3), including increased cranial weight shift and increased flexion of the lumbosacral, coxofemoral, and stifle joints.23 To address compensatory patterns, trunk - and core - strengthening exercises are also warranted, as are massage and soft tissue mobilization techniques.