Sentences with phrase «pelvic bone called»

By contrast, humans, who have a shorter pelvic bone called an ischium (informally known as a «sit bone»), can hyperextend their legs in a way that generates less force on the hamstrings at the knees.

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This means we find that happy medium between the two extremes of our pelvic motion where we have a gentle lumbar curve that gives a slight lift to our tailbone allowing our multifidi muscles to engage, allowing our transversus abdominus muscle to pull against solid interlocked vertebrae, and allowing our pelvic floor muscles to pull against a solid tail bone to contract when needed and come back to a neutral resting position when not being called upon.