Sentences with phrase «joints in your legs»

In van de Panne's model, for example, once the path of the swinging foot is specified by the controller, the angles between various joints in the leg and hip are automatically calculated.

Most of us, however, are guilty of not giving much thought to the quality of footwear we use every day, which in the long run can disturb the function of all joints in the legs and be the cause of mild yet chronic pain that needs to be addressed in the hope of preventing more serious trauma.

In some people with spondylitis, joints in the legs, arms, feet, and hands are also affected.

The only down side of skipping is that it can be heavy on the joints in the leg.

Knuckling over can be a be an orthopedic disease in which the joints in the legs bend forward when the dog is standing still.

Senior pets with degenerative joint disease of the spine, hips, or stifles (joints in the legs, equivalent to the knees in humans) may be stiff or in pain when jumping up, and they may cry when picked up.

Not exact matches

Of the seven, six had joint deformities in both arms and legs.

Finally cut each chicken quarter in half by cutting away the drumsticks from the leg thigh joint, and the wings from the breast joints

Cut the chicken halves in half again, slitting between the leg joint diagonally up and around the breast joint

Brush yogurt on chicken and continue roasting until chicken is well browned, juices run clear when inner thigh is pierced with a knife, legs move easily in the joint, and a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest portion of the thigh registers160 to 165 degrees F on an instant - read thermometer, about another 40 to 50 minutes.

Now pierce the meat in the leg joint and see if the juices run clear.

Turn duck legs skin side up and continue to braise (still covered) until tender and the bones wiggle easily in joints, 1 1/2 — 2 hours longer.

In addition, multiple other muscles originate around the hip joint including the adductors (inside of leg), hamstrings and glutes (back of leg), and quadriceps (front of leg).

• The first leg was Juve's joint heaviest home European defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1 defeat at home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.

• Salzburg's 0 - 4 loss at home to Parma in the first leg of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint heaviest European home defeat.

The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain» exercises (those which tend to isolate a single muscle group and a single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain» exercises (those which work multiple joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).

Straight legs in a tight swaddle can increase the risk of hip dysplasia, a condition that causes the bones of the hip joint to become improperly aligned.

The forces on the hip joint are minimal because the legs are spread, supported, and the hip is in a more stable position.

A baby, when being picked up, will pull the legs up in the correct position which will place the hip joint into the socket in a perfect position to ensure correct hardening of the cartilage present the first few month after birth.

We had two slings for BB, one that sat her in a similar position and one that was front facing and left her legs dangling, useless, pulling her hips down, creating a pressure on those fragile joints.

Michelle Nudds said: «It was a great morning teaching the pupils all about pheasants and game and watching them take the oven ready birds and remove the breast meat to use in their tacos and fajitas and joint off the legs for a later lesson.»

Theresa Bauer, from new Windsor, was born bow - legged with very loose knee joints and is in danger of losing her apartment since Social Security Disabilities Insurance has reduced her monthly benefits by $ 150.

Hearing loss, vision defects, impaired growth and abnormalities in infants» leg and arm joints have also now been linked to Zika.

Its legs collapse as the motor in a knee joint overheats.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are helping researchers understand how the nervous system of arthropods - creepy crawlies with jointed legs - evolved.

Electrodes were implanted in the part of Idoya's brain that controls leg movement; these devices recorded the activity of 250 to 300 neurons that fired when her ankles, knees, hip joints, and feet moved or were about to move.

For a start, Ruina and Gomes's simplified two - dimensional model, designed with two rigid legs and a rigid torso connected by springs, has no friction in its joints.

They found similar patterns in the left mouse leg to those seen in osteoarthritis, not only in the knee structures but also in the cartilage that wraps the bones» ends, suggesting that the injury response is a further mechanism that triggers altered signaling from the knee joint to the growth plate.

In order to unravel how much force the stick insect's leg joints generate, Dallmann had his insects walk along a walkway with integrated platforms.

The other leg joints serve, in a way, as steering units, which redirect the power such that the insect can both hold itself up above the ground and propel itself forward,» says Dallmann.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

Movement in every joint in the rats» hind legs.

In the earliest whales, the joints in the front flippers — essentially elbows — could still be flexed, a relic of when those flippers were legIn the earliest whales, the joints in the front flippers — essentially elbows — could still be flexed, a relic of when those flippers were legin the front flippers — essentially elbows — could still be flexed, a relic of when those flippers were legs.

The biggest challenge in making BigDog work is «you don't have one joint per leg — you've got four of them,» says Robert Mandelbaum, the program manager in DARPA's Information Processing Techniques (IPTO) and Tactical Technology offices who is in charge of the agency's biorobotics program, which includes BigDog.

This effectively locks the leg joints in place, preventing the knee from flexing while allowing the joint to remain fully extended.

These dino - pioneers, such as Herrerasaurus, were «fleet - footed carnivores,» Persons says, thanks in part to an evolutionary advance in hip joints: Unlike the sprawling, reptilian stance of other archosaurs, dinosaurs had an erect posture, with their legs under their bodies.

Getting the robot's legs, each of which featured four joints, to move in a synchronized fashion — not to mention adjust dynamically to slippery surfaces such as ice — proved challenging.

Healthy cartilage that covers the bone surfaces in the knee joint transfers these high loads from the lower leg to the upper leg.

Kohei Okamoto at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and his team spotted the molluscs raising their front arms while they bent their other legs, as if they had joints.

She thinks understanding how the body does this might lead to ways to reduce shock in the lower part of the leg, and prevent common injuries such as stress fractures and joint problems.

In a related project, Iida and his MIT group are now building legs that operate with as few controlled joints and motors as possible, an engineering technique they call underactuation.

The eldest son of a bricklayer, Donoghue spent several years of his Arlington, Massachusetts, childhood in a wheelchair after developing a painful degenerative bone disease that ravaged his upper leg bones where they form the hip joint.

So in the case of the eight - legged robot, we had to develop our own gait compatible with the binary motion of our joints.

In contrast, Vivienne — her legs bowed, her knee joints extended — can barely take measured steps and, even then, only with the help of someone holding her hands or with something solid to lean on.

The fruit bat came second, and in joint third the fly nervous system and the fly legs.

A new group of beetles with a heart - shaped leg joint has been discovered in the Belize rainforest by Museum scientist Max Barclay.

Part of the reason for this is that the hip joint is the largest joint in the body, and it is responsible for moving our largest appendages — our legs.

Using your quads, extend your legs to the maximum while keeping a slight bend in your knees to protect the joint and ensuring that the rest of the body remains stationary on the seat at all times.

Having always been an active person, I began to experience extreme lethargy, numbness and tingling in my legs, popping joints, rapid heartbeat and several other symptoms.