Sentences with phrase «of use of limbs»

Secure Income High Policy provides cover against death, dismemberment and Permanent Total loss of use of limbs caused due to an accident.

However, there is no cap if the person has suffered a catastrophic injury, which would include the loss of the use of a limb, a permanent and substantial physical deformity, or an injury that prevents one from caring for themselves and performing life - sustaining activities.

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In a bathroom down the hall, a member of a team of Filipino cleaners scrubbed a shower stall using three limbs simultaneously — two hands and a foot to press a rag against the enamel.

Among some of Toyota's developments for the disabled or elderly include a strap - on robotic leg for people who lost the use of their limbs and a so - called human support robot designed to fetch and retrieve objects for people unable to do so.

At one point, she gingerly hikes up the legs of her pants to display the sores on her knees from crawling back and forth on her bedroom floor each day — an exercise meant to help her relearn the use of her limbs.

Lateralisation of limb use — that is, a bias towards one side or the other — usually begins in the brain.

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Toronto working with Autodesk developed a new low - cost method of creating prosthetic limb sockets using 3D printing.

Given the number of Muslims in the area this wasn't surprising but this girl had obviously been told by her parents to keep her head and limbs covered which she did using the tightest body hugging clothes I have ever seen!

You can use Paypal, which is on the blog page or if you wish to send a check, make it out to Joshua Hayward and send it to the address on the contact page.Let's show him our support... he's stepping out on a limb that takes a lot of courage to step out on.

Where are the Gods that used to walk the Weald, Where are their golden limbs and fiery faces, Divinities of river, tree and field, The uncommon spirits of the common places?

The hearings may also shed light on a controversial part of the American abortion industry: the fate of second - and third - trimester premature infants who are aborted with their vital organs and limbs intact, allowing for use by biomedical researchers.

They have recovered from their shock, regained the use of their limbs, and have reported to the chief priests in Jerusalem what has happened.

This year I'm going out on a limb... I may make 2 - 3 pies but one of them will be an attempt to use my mom's crust recipe with gluten - free flour.

Young has his moments and his talents, but he's not on a superstar contract — you don't expect to see him in a win - or - go - home scenario when Ellsbury still has the use of all his limbs.

Obviously there is inherent risk in undertaking any sport but please ask questions of yourself when thinking about taking part in your sport, like if you were to lose the use of a limb how would that affect your career prospects?

With the help of the charity Mission Motorsport, he's been learning to drive using prosthetic limbs and cars with hand controls, and he'll be putting his skills to use at the Autosport International show this weekend as part of a stunt driving team.

Just off the green we see Murchison's wife, Karen, boxing out like an NBA forward, using each of her limbs to hold back the tide of little Murchisons.

So he learns how control functionality of the limbs and use his lower half to stand upright.

When you start moving, your muscles require a steady supply of oxygen, so your body will send more blood to the limbs in use.

You could choose to use Just three colors of material, one for the body and limbs, one for the face and ears and one for the eyes and nose.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

For a start, many of the children who have lost limbs have done so as a result of being burnt by the big open bonfires that are used for cooking.

Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch said «Syria is expanding its relentless use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the price with their lives and limbs», «The initial toll is only the beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward.»

From such work, we've learned that many of the genes deployed in the developing phallus are also used to build limbs during embryonic development.

People with paralysis or an amputation can already use their minds to control robotic limbs, helping to restore their sense of independence, but the motions are often clumsy and unnatural.

«We are working on algorithms to improve the detection of motor imagery from EEGs, and conducting research on using tDCS with BCI for lower limb rehabilitation, such as walking,» says Ang.

They are developing a set of tasks and behavioral neural indicators of performance that will ultimately reveal how to promote a healthy sensation of touch in amputees and limb - absent people using robotic devices.

Fossilized bones show that a deinonychus used its powerful hind limbs to gut a massive triceratops of its belly organs.

This part of the experiment is crucial, because it demonstrates that the algorithm can be trained using thoughts alone — a vital step if people without the use of their limbs are to use the technology.

In later endeavors, Nicolelis trained rhesus monkeys to use brain - machine interfaces to control robotic limbs, and later, the 3 - D movements of an avatar — animated versions of themselves on a digital screen.

A runner using biological limbs can also adjust the stiffness of leg muscles and the angle at which a foot strikes the ground on the fly to accommodate any changes in a running surface.

ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment with surgery or physical therapy).

He is best known for the work that overlaps with my own interests: using mirrors as a low - tech form of virtual reality to treat phantom - limb pain and stroke paralysis.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

The experimental pilot study evaluated the use of magnet - directed nanoparticles containing the local anesthetic drug ropivacaine (MNP / Ropiv) to produce anesthesia of the limbs.

Using this information, the system then calculates the likely position of the joints within each limb to build a 3D skeleton.

The scientists will attempt to use the material to regenerate the muscle of patients who have lost at least 40 percent of a particular muscle group, an amount so devastating to limb function that it often leads doctors to perform an amputation.

A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston - area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and imaging technologies used to save lives and limbs.

The hybrid there is to connect the brain, spinal cord and existing nerve endings of an amputated limb and use all that information to guide a robot system.

Underpinning this is Conway Morris» claim that convergence is demonstrable at every major stepping stone in evolutionary history, from early cells, through to the emergence of tissues, sensory systems, limbs, and the ability to make and use tools.

The big magnet gives an inside view of the virus, much like magnetic resonance imaging can be used to peer inside our limbs and organs.

As they improved — using scalp recordings — we saw an expansion of the representation of the lower limbs in the cortex, which had disappeared after their injuries.

In people with paralysis or amputation, BCI can be used to control the movement of muscles, limbs and prosthetics.

It consist of using muscle signals from the amputated limb to control augmented and virtual environments.

Pterosaurs walked on all four limbs, and Habib has developed an anatomical model to explore how they might have launched themselves using their small hind limbs and larger «arms» which formed part of their wings.

Whitesides designed the shape and thicknesses of the walls of the air sacs within the robot's limbs by using computer modelling to calculate the forces and pressures required.

In anticipation of the technique's eventual use in humans, the team is working on an at - home rehab system targeting the upper limbs.

Earlier this year Habib suggested that the largest pterosaurs took flight by using all four limbs to leap into the air — a technique similar to that used by some bats but quite unlike the take - off behaviour of modern birds.

Researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago are using the rubber hand illusion to teach amputees to feel artificial limbs as their own.

We sense heat, cold, angular velocity, linear acceleration, internal pain (such as headache), relative position of limbs (proprioception), digestive system state (nausea), hunger and thirst and more, all without having to touch anything external or using the other four senses.