Sentences with phrase «reduces mechanical stress»

This distraction of the joint reduces mechanical stress on the cartilage and can help it to repair.

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Intense thermal stresses open up fractures in rocks; over the eons, the mechanical breakdown from daily heating and cooling can reduce boulders to piles of rubble.

These include poor mechanical (such as an altered gait), metabolic stress (reduced fat - burning) or hormone imbalance (such as an increase in the stress hormone cortisol).

Because myofascia is relatively superficial, it can be influenced through foam rolling (self - myofascial release), which helps to reduce these restrictions by remobilizing the tissue through friction and mechanical stress, helping to return the fascia into its original gel - like state (3).

Mechanical thinning can increase runoff at fine scales, as well as reduce fire risk and tree water stress during drought, but the effects of this practice have not been studied at scales commensurate with recent forest disturbances or under a highly variable climate.

Mechanical thinning alone or in combination with prescribed fires reduced fire risk, increased runoff, and improved tree water - stress at the plot scale [20]--[23].