Sentences with phrase «microfractures in»

Fracking relies on the high - pressure injection of water, sand, and other chemicals to create microfractures in rock formations, thereby making it easier to draw out oil and gas.

The researchers detected CO2 bubbling very quickly from the site, presumably from existing microfractures in the sediment.

«Scintigraphy found stress microfractures in the hind legs, and now I know what to do to help the horse get back into training.

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Doctors discovered articular cartilage damage, which required arthroscopic microfracture surgery in September.

The brief return of Sizemore — he came back in April from microfracture surgery on his left knee and slugged.641 with 16 extra-base hits in 84 plate appearances before going back on the DL with a right - knee bruise on Monday — and the resurgence of Hafner bolstered a lineup that is in the top three in the AL in average, on - base and slugging.

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

Microfractures, too small to be detected by the conventional X-rays that most track vets use, can lead to unexplained soreness in an animal and to breakdowns.

Dr. Sue Stover, one of the researchers, has already made several findings involving «microfractures» in various types of bones in which it was thought such fractures did not occur.

In its efforts to diagnose microfractures and abnormal bone that would predispose a horse to a full - blown fracture, researchers at the Equine Sports Medicine Program at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine have been using scintigraphy, a technique in which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itselIn its efforts to diagnose microfractures and abnormal bone that would predispose a horse to a full - blown fracture, researchers at the Equine Sports Medicine Program at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine have been using scintigraphy, a technique in which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itselin which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itself.

They posit the possible role of flexoelectricity in the regeneration of bone tissue in and around the kind of microfractures incurred in bones on a daily basis.

This new procedure is being tested on former racehorses and rodeo horses to determine if it is more effective than a commonly used cartilage repair treatment in the U.S. called «microfracture.»

In the affected water pumps, the pulley or sprocket that turns the timing belt may develop microfractures causing the timing belt to fail.