Sentences with phrase «lower spine»

Another study found improvements in the density of both the hips and lower spine when participants stood straight with their weight on their heels.

Create a gentle flexion in lower spine.

In an effort to maintain stability our hips get flexed forward and our lumbar spine (low spine region) is forced into an overly hyper - extended position.

«But it does show some pretty classic burrowing features, like low spines on the vertebrae, and a short tail and a long trunk.»

and lower spine so the baby can more easily be expelled from the birth canal.

Gently lower the spine back down.

Typically this is a much more painful birth as the back of the baby's head (hard part) is rubbing against the mothers lower spine (ouch!)

As urologist Aaron Spitz, MD, explains his new guide The Penis Book, both the penis and brain must generate a specific combination of signals that «jump from nerve to nerve, zipping along to meet in a specialized part of [the] lower spine known as the «spinal ejaculation center.»»

Activate muscles that control lower spine and pelvis.

tear in lower spine.

During the final trimester, relaxin helps relax the body's pelvic joints and lower spine so the baby can more easily be expelled from the birth canal.

As you exhale, lower your spine back down onto the mat slowly, one vertebra at a time.

I was mindful of how I held my lower spine, watched how other runners held theirs,» Satyanand reports.

14 - year - old Jessica Rogers was born with a rare condition that left her with no lower spine and meant her legs had to be amputated when she was three, leaving her standing only 18 inches tall.

In Seattle I overjumped and broke my lower spine.

This ensures that the extension of the hips comes from the powerful butt muscles, not the compressive forces in the lower spine.

In many cases, this low back pain is a symptom of spondylolysis, a stress fracture of an area of the lower spine called the pars interarticularis.

(You don't want to place any emphasis on the low spine).

The head may rest in the sciatic nerve in your lower spine, causing you to feel tingling, numbness, and sharp and shooting pains in your lower back and buttocks, which would radiate down to the back of your legs.

I think she very quickly realized I was experiencing back labor (which is a nice way of saying the baby is trying to push its way through your lower spine) and helped me through several contractions with a heating pad on my back.

This is a gentle manipulation of the plates of the skull and lower spine.

This positioning causes the baby's head, which is the hardest part of its body, to press down onto your tailbone and lower spine.

- The declined leg portion decompresses the lower spine to calm back pain by eliminating lower back pressure / decompressing the spine.

• Chiropractic adjustments: Sara Brown of Dallas suffered from lower back pain — and a breech baby in her 36th week.A chiropractor applied a special adjustment called the Webster Technique, Brown says, manipulating her lower spine and massaging sore round ligaments.

I have herniated disks and it was a risk to my lower spine to get pregnant to begin with, so anyone with a large needle won't be going near my spine if I can help it!

A 2008 study in the European Spine Journal found that the lower spines of two adult Neanderthals showed little of the degeneration associated with a life of heavy physical activity, which we believe they experienced.

The secret to Neanderthals» better back health is apparently a combination of heavier musculature supporting their spines and lumbar kyphosis, a reverse curvature of the lower spine that, in our species, is considered abnormal.

Studies of animals such as rats, guinea pigs, sheep, cats, ferrets and primates have shown that this so - called lordotic posture, in which the lower spine is curved towards the belly, can signal the readiness of females to mate.

The team looked for patterns associated with two COLIA1 alleles, called S and s. Women who had one copy of the s allele had bone density in the thighbone and lower spine that was 2 % less than that of women with no s alleles.

Yet despite significant advances in spinal surgery, modifying the curvature of the lower spine through surgical fusion increases the risk of abnormal spinal curvature above the level of the operation, a condition called proximal junctional kyphosis — or PJK.

The X-ray images he made show that the hero shrew has 11 vertebrae in its lower spine — most shrews have only 5 or 6 — which makes it extremely limber.

Interneurons in the lower spine send tailored messages to specific muscles via another type of neuron called motor neurons.

That work took off in the mid-1970s, when Edgerton, then studying the way exercise impacts muscles, learned that Swedish scientists were tracing walking and standing motions directly to nerve signals from the lower spine.

«People may think heat and sweat are the same, but in fact, some areas like the lower spine produce lots of sweat but not much heat,» Yao says.

To compensate, the angle of curvature in the lower spine increases by as much as 28 °, creating an S shape that pulls the shoulders back and redistributes the weight so the center of mass is again above the hips rather than out in front.

Eight - limbed girl has four limbs removed A two - year - old Indian girl regained consciousness, smiled and wiggled her toes today following massive surgery Wednesday to remove an extra set of limbs budding from her lower spine.

To investigate whether stem cells - cells that can transform into any type of cell in the body - could help MND sufferers, scientists injected rats, bred to carry the most common form of MND, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (AMS), with live human stem cells into their lower spines.

Scientists do know that certain germ - cell tumors can be associated with a number of other inherited defects of the central nervous system, genitourinary tract and lower spine.

Newton - John has metastatic breast cancer, which means her cancer began in the breast but then spread (or metastasized) to other organs — in this case, her sacrum, or lower spine.

He was diagnosed with a partially herniated disc in the lower spine, which was the result of an accumulation of pressure because of the extra body weight or bad body posture, an enlarged prostate, and accumulation of fluid in his left knee, which was again because of the extra weight.

Though surgery and eight months of chemotherapy treatment put her in remission for years, Newton - John is now battling metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her sacrum, or lower spine.

In my case, some of the joints in my lower spine had fused.

Work to keep the length of the lower spine.

So to prevent back pain, you want to create stability in your lower spine and mobility in your middle spine.

Creating stability in your lower spine and mobility in your middle spine can go a long way towards eliminating back pain.

When backbending correctly in yoga, the psoas should tone pulling the lower spine forward.

When your hip flexors are unbalanced, that is, too strong in comparison to your opposing lower back and hamstring muscles, or if they become shorter from training without stretching and become «tight», they will pull on your lower spine, which can create lower back pain.

Try to keep the body straight and not hyper extended through the lower spine.

Grab a partner and ask your partner to take her first two fingers and open them up like an upside - down V. Take that V and place a finger on each side of the lower spine.

However, this causes very little movement in the lower spine and this movement is mainly caused by contraction of the hip flexor muscles.