Sentences with phrase «shape of the spine»

This «s» shape of the spine developed in response to the body's need to absorb shock and allow movement in the back.

Perching allows us to keep the correct s - shape of our spines.

Now before you begin any sort of experimentation here, you need to find out what the shape of your spine is currently.

In trying to figure out what they have in common, she determined that the primary similarity is the shape of their spines — a shape that is markedly different from American spines.

Not exact matches

They are triangular bones, with two prominent spines making a T shape, held on the back by a matrix of muscle.

The doctor designed L - shaped snuggL total body pillow provides side sleepers with the ideal alignment of the spine reducing strain on the lower back, helping to alleviate back pain.

Your baby's spine starts to take shape slowly over the course of the second trimester to support your little one's body as he or she continues to grow.

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It's easy to get caught up in pictures of what you looked like before the baby or pictures of other moms after their babies with their belly buttons tapping their spines, but getting into good shape after delivering a baby takes time and you have to be patient with yourself and your body.

Instead the baby's spine is straightened and often hyper extended (concave «hollow back» shaped) due to weak abdominal muscles and lack of leg support.

An ergonomic baby carrier supports the natural «C» shaped curve of the baby's spine, the spread squat position of the hips / legs where the knees are raised slightly higher than the bum (the «M» shape), and has the fabric spread from the hollow of one knee to the hollow of the other knee.

It will take until after your child's first birthday, when he walks away from you unsupported, for him to acquire the «S» shape of a developed spine.

Slings hold babies in the foetal tuck position which supports the natural «C» shape of your baby's spine.

The basics of infant spine development Adult spines are «S» shaped, and feature four slight curves that assist with balance and flexibility.

Ergonomic seating molds to your baby's body shape, offering an extra level of support for their spine, neck and head.

Since January, Mr. Reed has run the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, a BID of BIDs, overseeing the MetroTech office park, Fulton Mall and the Court - Livingston - Schermerhorn corridor, an L - shaped spine of older office buildings, mostly filled with government agencies and legal firms.

The cushion has a U-cut orthopedic shape designed to take pressure off of your tailbone, coccyx, and spine in general — a major cause of pain while sitting.

According to a survey of body shapes in 347 fish families, those with vertical spines tend to have deeper bodies, and those with horizontal spines tend to have wider bodies (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2015.1428).

In addition, many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores, such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.

They differ most obviously from their spider and scorpion relatives in three ways: their massive two - segmented jaws, which can be up to one - third of their body length and are armed with teeth and spine - like and horn - like processes of various sizes; the flagellum, found on the jaws of adult males in most species and thought to play a major role in reproduction; and the malleoli, racquet - shaped sensory organs on the underside of the first segment of the last pair of legs.

Unlike typical crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite crystal with its own convoluted shape.

Like a number of other topics in neuroscience, whether the spine shifts shape or, possibly, new proteins are synthesized, how memories are formed for the long - haul is still up for debate.

The few who had spines on the sides of their bodies tended to have wide shapes.

A new mouse study shows that triggering a gene inside astrocytes activates the star - shaped cells and may improve the brain's ability to heal from a range of debilitating conditions, from stroke to concussions and spine injuries.

Bressloff, along with mathematical biologist Berton Earnshaw, conceived of the dendritic spine — the mushroom shape at the downstream end of the neuron — as a two - compartment box: On the far downstream end, essentially in the synapse, scaffolding proteins suspend AMPA receptors so they can bind glutamate signals coming from the upstream neuron.

Now, a handful of 480 - million - year - old fossils from southeastern Morocco suggests that those progenitors may have resembled a spine - covered slug that wore a small toenail - shaped shell on its head.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

For centuries, classical anatomists have understood that the vertebrate spine is make up of discrete sections along its length, each containing vertebrae of different shape and function.

To compensate, the angle of curvature in the lower spine increases by as much as 28 °, creating an S shape that pulls the shoulders back and redistributes the weight so the center of mass is again above the hips rather than out in front.

The shape and number of dendritic spines turned out to be normal, as was the transmission of nerve signals.

That's why our spines are shaped like an «S.» All that curving, with the weight of the head and stuff we carry stacked on top, creates pressure that causes back problems — especially if you play football, do gymnastics, or swim the butterfly stroke.

And of course the fish, of every hue and size and shape, with bodies designed to quickly maneuver through reef structures, fend off predators with scalpel - like spines, scrape algae and avoid stinging tentacles, all coexist in these incredible habitats.

This is a term that is important for a range of exercises, and involves keeping the natural»S - shaped» curve in your spine.

According to most definitions, the trapezius muscles are large, diamond - shaped surface muscles that extend longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae and laterally to the spine of the scapula.

Slumping in front of a keyboard for hours on end can cause your spine to form an unattractive and potentially harmful hunched posture over time, says Jeremy Smith, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon at Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, Calif. «The spine has a well - balanced S - shaped curvature in order to stabilize and support us,» Dr. Smith says.

As you exhale bring the breath from the crown to the root making a C shape in the spine and draw the navel to the back body as you rock onto the back edges of the sit bones.

In truth, there are disorders of the spine that alter the shape of it, such as; Lordosis, Kyphosis, and Scoliosis.

If you walk into any office, restaurant, or coffee shop you will undoubtedly see people hunched over, turning their spines in the shape of C. Unfortunately this is not a circus trick, but a very serious problem that is plaguing the nation.

Core imbalance is the condition of excessive compression, which can cause the spine to curve forward in a C - like shape.

Start by looking at the external shape of a backbend, and see how the spine arches backward (or extends) to form a circle that holds the potential of one end touching the other.

Your lumbar spine sits on your sacrum, the triangular - shaped bone that forms the back of your pelvis.

Again, the work is to seek neutrality: allow the organic rounded shape of the thoracic spine but don't give in to gravity (or laziness).

The trapezius is a trapezoid shaped muscle that runs from the base of your head and all the way down your cervical (neck) and thoracic (mid-back) spine over to your shoulder blades.

New Zealand yoga teacher Donna Farhi notes that in her travels around the world, she's found that dysfunction in the sacroiliac joint (SI joint)-- the meeting of the two posterior surfaces of the pelvis with the sacrum, the triangular - shaped bone at the base of the spine — has become the most common injury among female yoga practitioners.

«But when you sit, you distort the natural curve of the spine, which means your back muscles have to do something to hold your back in shape because you're no longer using the natural curves of the spine to lift yourself up against gravity.»

• Hamstrings → Due to the compromised nature of a c - shaped spine the hamstrings pull the pelvis and lumbar spine backwards.

For example, if your shoulder blades tend to «wing out», it might look like you have a pronounced upper back curve, but this is the shape of your shoulder blades, not the spine.

To reverse the effects of the forward hunch or C - shaped forward curvature of the spine, I recommend stretches such as the Cobra Pose in yoga or using a device called the BackBridge, both of which promote extension and stretch the back in the opposite direction that the forward hunch puts your shoulders in.

You'll use your breath and core muscles to hold the shape of Purvottanasana and to stabilize your spine.

The first is that the natural shape of the thoracic spine is a forward bend, meaning it is convex in the rear, so it has a long way to go before it bends backward.