Sentences with phrase «vertebrae do»

Extra thoracic vertebrae don't cause problems and cats don't have routine chest screening x-rays so any extras will go unnoticed.

Rumpie - risers have one to three tail vertebrae and are allowable in the ring as long as the vertebrae do not stop the judge's hand stroking down the rump.

Not exact matches

Senior exercise physiologist, Heather Milton told INSIDER, «We like to try exercises, rather than doing a lot of crunches that will continue to put flex on your spine and that can actually put stress on the vertebrae as well as the discs that are between each vertebrae.»

But before that could be done, the tumor on her back — which ate away the vertebra until it collapsed, creating extreme pain and threatening to cause paralysis — would have to be removed.

Comfortable — This pillow does not only give you comfort, but it also helps to reduce neck and back pain by helping you align your vertebra.

He actually has done the majority of the housework over the past year as we had a rough pregnancy (a pulled uterine ligament and out of whack vertebrae) and an emergency cesarean birth, and still kept our amazing connection.

Despite claims that helmets do not protect the cervical spine during a motorcycle crash and may even increase the risk of injury, researchers from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison found that, during an accident, helmet use lowers the likelihood of cervical spine injury (CSI), particularly fractures of the cervical vertebrae.

But Eunotosaurus didn't have other features common to Odontochelys and turtles, including broad spines on their vertebrae.

Even after shattering a vertebra in his neck in a surfing accident nine years ago, Perlman doesn't hesitate to rappel down cliffs or bivouac on mountaintops in order to tend to his plant patients.

«But it does show some pretty classic burrowing features, like low spines on the vertebrae, and a short tail and a long trunk.»

Mammals have seven neck vertebrae — even giraffes, who you would think could do with a couple more.

So why do sloths have that extra vertebra in their necks?

All of the individual dinosaurs discovered were young adults, identified as such because their neck vertebra hadn't fully fused together, as they do in adults, the researchers said.

«One of the ways captorhinids could do this,» says first author LeBlanc, «was by having breakable tail vertebrae.»

Traditional situps do little to flatten your abdominal muscles, and also overtrain your hip flexors, the long muscles that attach your thighs to the lumbar vertebrae along your spine in your lower back.

But turning the torso further doesn't mean that you are rotating each individual vertebra more.

Put a slight bend in your knees, if you haven't done so already, and slowly roll yourself up to standing, one vertebra at a time.

Tilt the pelvis up to do a spinal roll (see previous core workout) and brace to hold that position, hips and vertebrae lifted.

There is no need or purpose for your spine to be exerted beyond the normal standing posture (which is 180ْ) and doing so can compress the joints of the lumbar vertebrae.

Though it is stable, it is crucial some movement does occur in order to absorb large forces headed for our lumbar vertebrae.

And doing the pose on the floor allows you to safely stretch your hamstrings without putting much stress on your vertebrae.

This movement, which you create in variation 2 of Malasana, intensifies the stretch by creating a larger gap between the vertebrae on one side of the spine than either a forward bend or a sidebend does alone.

I would love to hear your opinion about the relationship between tight hamstrings of a person who doesn't stretch them at all and lumbar vertebrae & discs.

Their heads are cut open and they are stabbed to dislocate their vertebrae, a method that doesn't kill the animals at first, leaving them in agony.

If the angle of the spine of the scapula does indeed differ between dogs, it is possibly because some dogs have proportionately shorter vertebrae in the neck or sacrum, and some may have longer bones in the true back and loin (the true back being between the scapula and the croup).

The best option at that point was to go immediately into surgery and do a hemilaminectomy — removal of part of the vertebrae in order to remove any infected material and decompress the spinal cord.

Don't have then cut off the bony part (the vertebrae need to break nid bone for the tail to regrow!)

The cervical (neck) vertebrae tend to have larger spinal canals for the spinal cord to pass through than do the vertebrae of the mid and lower back.

Further to their vocal habits, belugas, unlike most members of the cetacean family, don't have fused vertebrae; their bending necks lend them an extra anthropomorphic quality.

Gizmag reports, «To do this, the group had to essentially build a mock - up of a salamander's vertebrae and limbs that could alter its stance depending on whether it was traversing in water or not.

On the other hand, a neck injury that results in paralysis or damage done to the vertebrae or nerves will cause similar damages, but on a much larger scale — and potentially for the rest of your life.

Incomplete spinal cord injuries do not cause total damage to the vertebrae and nerves in that portion of the spine and a person may still have feeling or motor functions available even after a serious injury.