Sentences with phrase «knees and hips when»

Bend your knees and hips when picking something up or putting it down; carry a heavy object by using two hands and keeping the load close to your waist.

And while not everyone has joint problems, almost every big dude I know gets seriously achy knees and hips when he runs more than a mile or two at a time.

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Like the one above my eyebrow that I got when I was baby or Kai's scar the size of a large foot running across his hip and up his butt or Brendan's scars on his knees, his face and... ok, just all over.

When you swaddle a baby, it's important to leave room around the hips and legs so baby can pull his knees up and move his lower body around.

When sleeping on your side, body weight may not be as evenly distributed as in other positions, leading to pain at pressure points such as the hips, shoulders and knees.

When choosing a carrier, be sure that your baby can be positioned so that her legs are spread apart with hips and knees bent.

Some women find that they're more comfortable if they sleep slightly propped up, and many women rely on cuddling with a body pillow or wedging a pillow between their knees to give their hips some relief when they lie on their sides at night.

When holding or feeding your baby, cradle her so that her shoulders are forward with her arms tucked into her chest and with her legs flexed (bent) at the hips and knees.

8 years or at least 57 inches tall if (1) lap belt fits across hips and thighs, not abdomen (2) shoulder belt crosses center of chest and not neck (3) knees bend over seat edge when sitting up straight with his / her back firmly against seat back

When the recipient operates the device, it applies a continuous electrical current — at varying frequencies and intensities — to specific regions in the lower spinal cord where there are dense bundles of nerves that control the hips, knees, ankles and toes.

Studies have shown that users equipped with the lower - limb prostheses with powered knee and heel joints naturally walk faster with decreased hip effort while expending less energy than when they are using passive prostheses.

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.

Sitting with your legs slightly apart takes tension off the iliotibial band, our longest tendon, which can cause hip and knee pain when it's too tight.»

To lift, press your feet hard into the floor as you lift the bar along your shins, and slowly pushing your hips forward when the bar is past your knees.

According to Campbell, «When we attempt movements from running to squatting without optimal hip movement we risk injury to our hips, knees and ankles.»

Another often overlooked problem when squatting is raising the hips faster than the chest and shoulders, which can excessively stress your lumbar spine as you extend the lower back, so make a mental note to always raise your hips and shoulders at the same time, just as you bend your hips and knees at the same time on your way down.

They also encourage proper traction of the ankle, knee, and hip joints, which are crucial when you are sprinting between exercises in CrossFit.

Running is probably one of the most injury - inducing exercises: Your body takes a pounding through the ankles, knees, hips, and lower back when you run, and if you don't take a day off, your tight calf muscles or tendons of the feet can lead to bone spurs, shin splints, muscle tears, tendon shearing, and more.

When irritated — usually due to overuse or a substantial increase in training, such as adding volume, speed, hills or challenging terrain — it can cause inflammation and pain in either the hip or knee (or both).

When your outside foot contacts the ground, lower your body by pushing your hips back and bending the knee.

When performing a regular squat, stand up straight and place your feet slightly wider than shoulder - width apart, hips stacked over knees and knees over ankles.

The results showed that when the range of motion is greater, the hips pick up more of the load, compared to the knees and the ankles.

By the time I was 24 (when the hospital finally came up with a diagnosis of arthritis) I could hardly move my foot from the accelerator to the brake for the pain in my hip and knee.

Behind the popularity of the back squat lies a dirty secret: even when consistently performed with perfect form, it's bad for your lower back, hips and knees.

Measurements of Hip strength and kinematic data, fine measurements of how the knees, hips and shin bones moved and rotated when running, were noted before and after the runners in the control group kept their normal running routine for 6 weeks, and noted for all of the runners before and after the next 6 - week period when they all performed the exercises.

When we're in alignment, we exert the least amount of energy to initiate and maintain movement, we have more balance, and there's less stress on the shoulder, hip, knee and spine joints.

This move targets your upper hip and your IT band, which when tight can often cause knee pain.

This move targets your upper hips and IT band, which, when tight, can aggravate knees.

When you squat down, with all that weight on the bar, you are engaging your ankle, knee and hip joints at the same time.

When you sit, your hip flexors, the muscles that lift your knees and help you bend at the waist, become contracted and shortened.

It is the only muscle of the group which crosses the hip joint and is a powerful knee extensor when the hip is extended, but is weak when the hip is flexed.

In a study making a comparison between human running and walking motions, and if the knees, ankles or hips or are the most significant power sources for those motions, scientists demonstrate that the ankles generate most of the power when we run, but the hips generate most of the power when we walk.

Even when watching the best Olympic lifters, guys who are all about speed and power, you will see that it's the hips and not the knees that initiate and load first.

You'll find it easier to check the alignment of your knees, hips, and legs when you're practicing different yoga poses.

When you are standing, you improve balance, core stability, and strengthen the ankle, knee, and hip muscles at the same time.

Stop when both your knees and your hips are bent 90 degrees.

When you stand up from a squat, you'll use your hip flexors and abs to lift your knee toward your chest.

When you run, for example, your hips and muscles around your knees should be the body's primary shock absorbers, Sandell says.

When your legs and hips are weak the tendency is to let the knees cave in during this exercise.

When your knees cave in there is much more pressure on the knees, so do your best to keep your ankles, knees, and hips in good alignment throughout.

The hamstrings are responsible for knee flexion, hip extension and rotation on the knee joint when flexed.

Medicine and Science in Sports and... continue Before I knew any better, I had a nasty heel strike when running, which would send a jarring shock from the heel to the knee to the hip, and slows my forward momentum.

You get more ankle, knee, and hip stability when you stand up with dumbbells, and you'll generally burn a lot more calories with the above exercises then if you're sitting on a machine.

When you've squatted as low as you can, reverse the movement, pressing forcefully through your heels to extend your knees and hips.

When foam rolling the quads you want to place the foam roller just above the knee and roll up to the hip; long slow passes up and down.

When you stand on an unstable surface, your ankle, knee, and hip stabilizers all work harder.

Comparing the effect of squats with different stance widths, Escamilla et al. (2001a) reported no differences in hip moment arm lengths between the narrow, medium, and wide stance width squats at any point in the lowering and lifting phases, except at 45 degrees of knee flexion in the lifting phase, when the medium and wide stance width squats displayed greater hip moment arm lengths than narrow stance width squats.

Assessing the effects of cues, Fry et al. (2003) and Lorenzetti et al. (2010) found that peak hip extensor moments were greater when lifters were visibly or forcibly cued to prevent the knee from moving forward over the toes, compared to when they were allowed to lift normally but Hirata and Duarte (2007) found the opposite.

When the hip crease is below the knee, your glutes, adductors and hamstrings are all engaged.

I've lost weight twice in my life, once in college when I was able to run 3 - 5 miles every day, and 10k on the weekends, but I destroyed my hips, knees and ankles doing it.