Sentences with phrase «surrounding muscles in the legs»

The pelvic floor muscles provide an invaluable girdle of support, working harmoniously with the surrounding muscles in the legs, buttocks, back and abdomen.

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Unlike arms and legs that rely on bones to behave in a familiar way, like classical levers, tongues operate bonelessly like the tentacles of an octopus, with the motion of any lone muscle depending on the activity of surrounding muscles in a complex manner that researchers do not yet fully grasp.

It stabilizes that joint and, when partially torn or completely ruptured, leaves only muscles and surrounding soft tissue to hold the two lower leg bones and the upper thigh bone in place (these bones are the tibia, fibula and femur, respectively).