Sentences with phrase «stress on the cartilage»

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

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Any activity that puts repeated stress or pounding on the joints, such as running or tennis, will cause joint cartilage to wear down.

When compared to a traditional squat, the knee extension machine can place even more stress on the patellar tendon, knee ligaments (ACL), and cartilage behind the patella.

Injury, stress, «wear and tear», and repetitive patterns repeatedly wear down the joints protective cartilage diminishing the synovial fluid and protective coverings leading to bone on bone.

Older dogs have more problems as the cartilage begins to degenerate and overweight pets will have more stress placed on their joints.

Overly fast growth do too too rich and abundant a diet when these pets are young places stresses on bone and cartilage that often do not appear until the pet is much older.

Walking on sand or another soft surface or even swimming will help circulate needed nutrients and reduce excessive stress to the cartilage.

These theories include failure of transition of cartilage to bone during development, and excessive wear and tear on the coronoid process due to joint incongruity which places abnormal stresses on the developing bone.

Stress fractures almost always show an obvious bone fragment on the X-ray picture, but more often than not, the OCD lesion is either all cartilage or hard to find on film, sometimes because bone has been partly or completely resorbed.

Cartilage decreases joint stress by reducing impact on the ends of the bones in joints, like a gelatinous shock absorber.