Sentences with phrase «of vertebrae»

A subluxation is when the alignment, movement integrity, or physiological function of the spinal joints are altered, although contact between the joint surfaces (of the vertebrae) remain intact.

You can specify the subluxation by referring to the exact bones that are out of place, or by referring to a certain area or set of vertebrae that are out of place.

Common slip and fall injuries include hip, neck and back injuries, herniation of vertebrae and head injury, including concussion.

A person's spine is made up of a collection of vertebrae and discs which if altered or injured in any way could cause a person to be paralyzed for the rest of their life.

A spinal cord injury is when a person suffers a sudden, traumatic blow that fractures, dislocates, crushes or compresses one or more of the vertebrae, damaging the spinal cord beneath.

Your neck and back are made up of a column of vertebrae that protect the nerves of the spinal cord.

To minimise the weight while maintaining the structural integrity of the yurt we looked to nature for solutions - the unique telescopic roof struts are held together using a block designed to replicate the strength and durability of a vertebrae.

In mammals, the number of vertebrae is not necessarily the cause of a longer body; this can be due to the length of the vertebrae (as seen in the giraffe's neck).

Other causes can include trauma, tumors, cysts, or infections of the vertebrae.

This dog has spondylosis, which is a form of arthritis due to instability of the vertebrae.

Although surgical decompression is rarely needed, destruction of the vertebrae can cause vertebral instability with secondary compression; in this case, decompressive surgery and stabilization may be indicated.2

One or more of the vertebrae at the base of the neck (cervical vertebrae) may be deformed or otherwise develop instability, putting abnormal pressure on the spinal cord.

Arthritis The over-weight animal has extra unneeded stress on joints, including the discs of the vertebrae.

Excessive consumption of liver can lead to hypervitaminosis A and may produce skeletal lesions, including deforming cervical spondylosis, ankylosis of vertebrae and large joints, osseocartilagenous hyperplasia, osteoporosis, inhibited collagen synthesis, decreased chrondrogenesis in growth plates of growing dogs, and narrowed intervertebral foramina.

The best option at that point was to go immediately into surgery and do a hemilaminectomy — removal of part of the vertebrae in order to remove any infected material and decompress the spinal cord.

Arthritis of the vertebrae and sternum is common in cats suffering from osteoarthritis.

Cervical vertebral malformation or instability: a malformation of the vertebrae in the neck usually leading to nerve damage.

Normal tail length and number of vertebrae varies considerably in dogs, though the number within a breed will be the same or perhaps vary by one or two.

To protect it from damage, the spinal cord runs through a bony canal within the spine and is surrounded by protective bone everywhere except the junction of the vertebrae.

They removed an infected part of his vertebrae and decompressed his spinal cord.

A pet's spine is made up of vertebrae, and between these vertebrae are flexible intervertebral discs.

Turkey necks in my opinion are too large of vertebrae for all dogs.

The tail consists of vertebrae (called «caudal» vertebrae), muscle, ligaments and tendon.

Tail injuries can involve dislocation of one or more vertebrae (where the injury is a result of the tail being pulled or twisted) or a fracture of a vertebrae (where the injury is from a trauma).

Their muscle and fat disappeared, and their skulls emerged, fastened to long chains of vertebrae.

Try placing your Selenite Cleansing Crystal on your back, along the length of your spine, to bring energetic alignment of the vertebrae and the chakras.

All of our vertebrae, joints, and organs come close to an internal stasis, of having equal pressure.

The trapezius muscle, also known as the traps, is a kite shaped muscle that starts at the base of the skull and runs down the tips of the vertebrae.

What happens in reality, though, is that tightness in the muscles, ligaments, and cartilage restricts the movement of some vertebrae, forcing others to take up the slack.

In everyday life, however, these muscles are less responsible for the actual movement of the spine but rather for the stabilisation of the vertebrae against each other.

They are the spinalis muscles, which connect to the central spines of the vertebrae; the longissimus muscles, which run from the head to the sacrum, connecting to the sides of the vertebrae along the way; and the semispinalis muscles, which start at the base of your head and continue along the vertebral column, connecting the central spine of one vertebra to the side of another one many segments below.

The variation of Upavistha Konasana (Wide - Angle Seated Forward Bend) used in this sequence maximizes the lateral arc of your body, and this creates more stretch than any other movement on certain muscles that run vertically up the sides of the vertebrae or the back of the rib cage.

Twisting to the right and left completes the set of six directions, mitigating against fusing and limited - mobility of vertebrae.

Normally, your spine consists of vertebrae and discs.

The Trapezius is a broad kite shaped muscle that runs from the base of the head down the tips of the vertebrae.

Normally the spine is made up of vertebrae and discs.

So twisting the vertebra is one of the few ways to get all of the vertebrae under some compression and stimulate bone growth in the vertebrae.

In a two - year study published in 2000 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Japanese researchers observed that subjects receiving supplemental vitamin K2 showed 52 percent fewer incidences of fractures of the vertebrae, compared with those patients who were not provided with the supplement.

A transverse process is a bony protrusion from the back of a vertebrae bone in the spine.

Realigns after - exercise spine: Inversion therapy can help you realign any of the vertebrae that somehow went out of kilter while you work out.

Another experiment in Czechoslovakia found that 65 per cent of women who supplemented with 1500 to 3000 mg of magnesium lactate daily for two years completely got rid of their pain and stopped further development of deformities of the vertebrae.

Spondylolisthesis is a slippage of the vertebrae that can cause pain and numbness down the leg.

The team now plans to investigate other fossils with a view to reconstructing Hox expression patterns along the anterior - posterior axis on the basis of regional differences in the morphology of their vertebrae.

They were fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, and had a distinctive body plan comprising a compact, streamlined body, long, paddle - like limbs and an extremely elongated neck with a large number of vertebrae (Fig. 1).

Researchers also examined the archaeological materials from the original excavations and identified several new fragments of vertebrae and ribs of La Ferrassie 1.

Lumbar spinal stenosis is brought about by a narrowing of the spinal canal caused by the degeneration of the vertebrae, discs, joints, and ligaments that comprise the spinal column, resulting in a compression of nerve roots.

It was around 8.5 metres long, the size of the vertebrae suggests (see image below).

«[It] has a single row of belly scales, it has very snake - like vertebrae, it has a body longer than the tail, it has hundreds of vertebrae, it has the remains of other vertebrate animals in the stomach and so it was a carnivore, it has backward pointing teeth.

«The trick was to imitate it without complicating matters unnecessarily: instead of vertebrae and intervertebral discs, we worked with a cleverly placed spring which delivers approximately the same effect.

But those fossils — a few bits of vertebrae, pelvis and limb — languished unidentified in London's Natural History Museum for several decades.