Sentences with phrase «moment arms of»

Delp et al. (1999) measured the muscle moment arms of 6 different compartments of the gluteus maximus at several different hip flexion angles (0, 20, 45, 60, and 90 degrees) in 4 cadavers.

On the other hand, the gracilis and obturator externus display much smaller, less substantial muscle moment arms of -1.3 cm and -0.7 cm, respectively.

Dostal et al. (1986) reported muscle moment arms of 7.1 cm, 7.6 cm, and 7.1 cm for the adductor longus, adductor brevis, and gracilis, respectively.

Dostal et al. (1986) reported muscle moment arms of -4.1 cm, -2.1 cm, and -3.6 cm for the adductor longus, adductor brevis and pectineus, respectively.

In contrast, the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major provides one of the largest shoulder adduction moment arms of the upper body musculature.

The length of the moment arms of each muscle also changes depending upon the joint angle.

Exactly how the hip extension muscle moment arms of the hamstrings compare with those of the other hip extensors is actually still fairly unclear.

The purpose of this section is to detail the muscle moment arms of the pectoralis major muscle in each of the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes, and to explain how they change with changing joint angles.

This purpose of this section is to provide a summary of the muscle moment arms of the biceps muscle in each of the main planes of movement.

This purpose of this section is to provide a summary of the muscle moment arms of the calf muscles in each of the main planes of movement.

In contrast, the moment arm of the short and long head at zero degrees of supination (neutral) were approximately 9 mm and 8.5 mm, respectively.

Murray et al. (1995) found that the moment arm of the biceps appears to peak (length = 38 mm) at 90 degrees of elbow flexion, while its minimum (length = 20 mm) is displayed at 20 degrees of elbow flexion.

The moment arm of the biceps appears to peak around 90 degrees of elbow flexion (Ettema et al., 1998; Jarrett et al. 2012).

In contrast, the chart shows that the lower sternocostal head of the pectoralis major actually displays a shoulder extension peak moment arm of -9.3 mm at 98 degrees (arms just above parallel with the ground).

Anatomical studies have observed that the hip internal rotation moment arm of the anterior region of the gluteus medius is greater in hip flexion than in hip extension (Delp et al. 1999).

Arnold and Delp (2001) noted that during the typical hip flexion - extension cycle involved in gait, the moment arm of the gracilis in the transverse plane was for external rotation but was still very small at around 1.0 cm.

Ackland et al. (2008) reported that the middle deltoid displayed a similarly large shoulder flexion muscle moment arm of 33.1 mm at 120 degrees, indicating that both the anterior and middle deltoids are capable of producing large forces during shoulder flexion in the scapular plane.

Keuchle et al. (1997) show that the anterior displays an average muscle moment arm of 21.0 mm while the middle deltoid displays an average muscle moment arm of 23.5 mm, indicating that both segments function as shoulder flexors.

Similarly, Ruckstuhl et al. (2009) showed the peak moment arm of the middle deltoid to be 30.3 mm at 90 degrees of abduction.

Németh & Ohlsén (1984) performed a study of 10 cadavers and 20 live subjects, and reported that the hip extension moment arm length of the gluteus maximus moment arm of gluteus maximus decreased substantially from around 8 cm to 3 cm with increasing hip flexion angle, making the gluteus maximus far more effective as a hip extensor in full hip extension, than in full hip flexion.

Not exact matches

Citizens of the country have even developed a reputation for having their guns ready in the closet at a moment's notice, which has led some people to wonder if the Swiss are all required to own arms in order to protect their state.

In the United States economy, the twin arms of the unemployment rate and the stock market are, for the moment, working just fine.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

Fidelity Charitable, the nonprofit arm of Fidelity Investments that runs its donor - advised fund program, found that 71 percent of millennial women give to charity based on the moment while less than half of baby boomer women do so.

The swinging arms may come back out during the final moments of the race to give the skater an extra boost for the finish.

Armed with an English degree and an inborn passion for all things involving marketing and technology, Nick's been a full - time journalist and copywriter since 2010 — and he's loved every moment of it.

On September 15, 2008, a key moment in the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street when Lehman Brothers filed bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was forced into the arms of Bank of America and Citigroup teetered toward insolvency, Deutsche Bank's shares closed the day at $ 58.80 (equivalent price adjusted for a subsequent stock split).

So, you're OK with his stance on butchering babies just moments before they are full - term and ready to slide down the baby canal chute into the warm and loving arms of their mother??????? Just too funny.

Only in the final scene does she discover that this pitiful, disheveled tramp was her benefactor, when she touches his arm and face once again, as in her blindness, and in that moment of revelation whispers, «You!»

But right now I want a bath and a pint of Guinness, I want to sit beside the man cradling our last little baby in his strong arms and lean my head into his shoulder, memorize this exact moment, I want to stay here in this pause for just a while longer.

In the moments after I came out of the closet, that same dad swept me up in his arms.

It was the soul of his entire race that had shuddered within him: an obscure memory of a first sudden awakening in the midst of beasts stronger, better - armed than he; a sad echo of the long struggle to tame the corn and to master the fire; a rancorous dread of the maleficent forces of nature, a lust for knowledge and possession... A moment ago, in the sweetness of the first contact, he had instinctively longed to lose himself in the warm wind which enfolded him.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

As soon as the 2nd amendment starts becoming modified to fit the times we live in, that will be the moment our freedoms start to become watered - down, and consequently, after more and more efforts are made to further limit the meaning of the 2nd amendment, we will find ourselves with such a weak interpretation or effictive realization of the 2nd amendment that it will be too late, and we might as well arm ourselves with BB guns.

The first few moments I dimly recall, the thermometer being stuck into my mouth, the gray band being wrapped around my arm to take blood pressure, and the series of annoying questions being asked about my health insurance policy (which I thankfully reassured myself, even in that debilitated state, would very soon be a thing of the past).

Weigel exactly captures the anti-Papal ranting of the weeks immediately preceding the visit — and then the extraordinary change that came over the country that began the moment the Pope arrived and came hurrying down from the aircraft, arms outstretched.

If we do not seize upon the promise of this moment through what we might call «the mutual conversation, consolation and correction of the brothers and sisters» (to rephrase Luther), we could be in for a period of theological Balkanization or Beirutization - armed camps firing away at each other from their places of epistemological privilege.

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

If both charges had been armed, or if the table hadn't been quite so thick, or if the case holding the explosives hadn't been moved, or if Hitler hadn't bent over the map at that precise moment, or any number of other factors, history would have been changed, and millions of lives would have been spared.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

In the last episode, Smith steps forward in Berlin to receive (if only for a moment) the stiff - armed salute of a Nazi multitude.

This situation need not be static, and the moment the nuclear powers reach agreement on arms control or disarmament the UN can assume new functions that might be the functions of an incipient world government.)

In a moment a crowd of 200 men had gathered, and one ran towards him, seized his arm and said: «What are you destroying here?»

They are maybe five years old, these three moppets, and I hear Their bus groaning a ways behind me, but they are totally into sculpting Little hills and ridges of leaves, and I can hear them giggling, and in one Minute the bus will hold out its arms and absorb them, and the parade is Starting to move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blind.

And in that moment, I felt happier than I felt sitting on the set of the Today Show, happier than I felt watching my Amazon rank jump up (and then go back down), happier than I felt when a stranger grabbed my arm in Times Square and said, «you did great!

Are we going to embrace the fear and anxiety of this cultural moment — not as a country, but as the Bridegroom of Christ — and close our doors, our arms, our families and our hearts to people who are far from God and in their deepest desperation?

It was in this historical moment that God chose to reveal himself as the redeemer, the one who brought the people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob up out of their bondage to Pharaoh with a strong arm.

Then, for a moment, he shifted into a wrestler's crouch, arms lowered and in front of him, circling warily.

Then from that moment, the maximum moment — more or less the same of what I have been doing every single winter, but maybe a little bit more emphasis on neck, shoulder and arms to prepare for this year's car.»

But at the very moment of his grandest fantasy, he usually clips a little girl on the side of the head with his nifty, bent - armed recovery and hears her porcine papa bellow: «Hey, showboat, look out for my kid.