Sentences with phrase «upper thoracic»

fact sheet explains, most of these injuries occur either to the upper thoracic region or to the upper and midcervical region of the infant's spinal cord.

The upper cervical and upper thoracic segments are typically most severely affected.

Too many people have poor upper thoracic mobility — ...

The purpose of this this 0 - 3 month old baby massage complex is first of all to train baby's body for different movements, reduce high tone of flexor muscles of hands and feet, as well as the active development of cervical spine, strengthening the upper thoracic spine muscles and shoulder girdle.

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However, there are also a fair number of women who experience upper back pain (thoracic spine).

Goose bumps, shivering, extensor movements of the arms, rapid flexion of the elbows, elevation of the arms above the bed, crossing of the hands, reaching of the hands toward the neck, forced exhalation, and thoracic respiratory - like movements... These complex sequential movements are felt to be release phenomena from the spinal cord including the upper cervical cord and do not [emphasis author's] mean that the patient is no longer brain dead.»

Chupkaornis has a unique combination of characteristics: finger - like projected tibiofibular crest of femur; deep, emarginated lateral excavation with the sharply defined edge of the ventral margin of that the thoracic vertebrae (those vertebrae in the upper back); and the heterocoelous articular surface of the thoracic vertebrae.

Try and reach the top hip on the rotation while keeping the opposite shoulder on the ground to make sure you're not only working the abs but getting a great stretch through the upper (thoracic spine).

The muscle fibers in the latissimus dorsi extend from the lower thoracic vertebrae, and the iliac crest in the hip, and then they join at the upper part of the humerus in the upper arm next to the shoulder.

The spine has three natural curves: the cervical spine (your neck), the thoracic spine (your upper back), and the lumbar spine (your lower back).

This is for creating mobility in the thoracic spine, also known as the upper and middle back.

They can occur in the upper back (cervical spine scoliosis), in the middle back (thoracic spine scoliosis) and in the lower back (lumbar spine scoliosis) in various combinations.

Thoracolumbar scoliosis is curvature that includes vertebrae in both the lower thoracic and upper lumbar portion of the spine.

With the slight rotation, we can load up the exercise a bit more and work some thoracic rotation / tranverse movement in the upper body.

One Arm Rotational Kettlebell Press Exercise Summary The One Arm Rotational Kettlebell Press Exercise is a great rotational movement that will build upper body strength and mobility throughout your shoulders and thoracic spine.

Although most people are familiar with bridges (also called wheel pose in yoga) placing both hands and feet on the floor, this variation with your feet elevated really helps get more into your shoulders and upper back, focusing on thoracic extension.

Using a foam roller to roll out your thoracic spine (upper spine) is a great mobility drill for folks that spend a lot of time typing on a computer.

To arch your upper back more deeply, move your thoracic spine in toward your chest, strongly lifting your sternum and bringing it forward.

When people refer to the upper back or thoracic spine, they're referring mainly to the trapezius, rhomboids, teres muscles, infraspinatus, and lats.

Your middle and upper back — called the thoracic spine — rounds posteriorly.

Dirgha Pranayama breathing builds a concentration of prana on three axes - the lower abdominal area, the thoracic region or the middle chest right under the sternum, and the upper chest clavicle region above the collar bones.

The thoracic spine is the area of the upper back that is responsible for a lot of different movements including flexing our shoulders over our heads.

Shoulder mobility can limit your ability to load overhead, and your upper back mobility - thoracic mobility - may be to blame as well.

Johnson et al. (1996) compared the fascicles of the trapezius with origins at the cervical (C3 - 6) and upper (T1) and lower (T5) thoracic vertabrae and reported that the PCSA was 2.3, 1.9 and 0.6 mm2, respectively.

The trapezius muscle also originates from the spine between the cervical and the upper five spinous processes of the thoracic region (Johnson et al. 1996).

The One Arm Rotational Kettlebell Press Exercise is a great rotational movement that will build upper body strength and mobility throughout your shoulders and thoracic spine.

In upper crossed syndrome, tightness in the pectoral muscles and latissimus dorsi and weakness in the rhomboids and middle / lower trapezius result in an exaggerated kyphosis of the thoracic spine and a depressed position of the sternum (1,2).

A skill - based move with the RMT Club, the TNT challenges the upper body's coordination while simultaneously expanding the thoracic cavity and shoulders, improving posture and mobility.

So if we wanted to increase circulation to the neck we really can not do it effectively without including the upper body, which means moving the thoracic spine and the shoulder girdle.

An increased thoracic curve in the spine — an over curvature of the upper back, the back looks hunched or rounded.

To get set up for thoracic extensions, you want to start by laying on the floor laying supine with the roller under your upper back.

That's why more complex movements that include the movement of the head, thoracic spine and the shoulder girdle (via the movement of the arms) will be more effective in releasing tension in your neck and upper back.

So it might be useful to do Vajrasana (to warm up the shoulders and begin to move the thoracic spine) and Bhujangasana (to warm up the upper back).

So in Downward dog, for example, we would avoid pulling the chest toward the thighs and instead focus on breathing into the upper back AS IF you were trying to inflate your thoracic curve and make it more pronounced.

When the structures in the upper body (i.e., thoracic spine, shoulders, arms and neck) are not doing their jobs well, the muscles of the lower back must take up the slack and end up becoming overworked.

Sufficient mobility of the thoracic spine is extremely important in helping the upper body decelerate forces (i.e., gravity and impact) to the lower body and prevent the structures of the lower back from experiencing excessive stress.

Target those chronically tight muscles like glutes, calves, quads, hamstrings and thoracic spine (upper - and middle - back).

Focusing the back bending in the upper (thoracic) spine also helps avoid compressing the low back.

Depending on how congested your Thoracic spine is feeling, add one or all of these postures / techniques to the start of your yoga practice to help bring awareness and restore mobility to this region of the upper back.

In the thoracic region the lumbodorsal fascia is a thin fibrous lamina which serves to bind down the Extensor muscles of the vertebral column and to separate them from the muscles connecting the vertebral column to the upper extremity.

Do not allow the shoulder blade to come off the floor as this signals compensatory motion from the upper torso / thoracic spine.

Arch the upper back, attempting to move from the thoracic spine rather than the lumbar or cervical spine.

Inhale as you arch your thoracic (or mid - to upper --RRB- back over the roller.

A: Spondylosis Deformans is usually seen in the lumbar vertebrae (the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis) of dogs and the thoracic vertebrae (the small bones that form the vertebral spine in the upper trunk) of cats.

Upper Back — Pain originating from the neck and / or upper spinal column (also known as thoracic spine injury — the region where your spine connects to your ribs) can cause severe pain and permanent impairment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the spinal cord column consists of more than 31 bones (or vertebrae), 7 cervical vertebrae (neck), 12 thoracic vertebrae (upper and middle back), 5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back), 5 sacral vertebrae (sacrum) and 2 fused coccygeal vertebrae (coccyx).