Sentences with phrase «with weakened muscles»

A weak pelvic floor also plays a role along with weakened muscles and ligaments.

[In our] current study, [we] sought to develop a lightweight, soft, wearable assist wear for supporting activities of daily life for older people with weakened muscles and those with mobility issues.»

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The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Neurophysiology found that mental imagery training helped those with weakened wrist muscles gain back more of their strength compared to those who did not use the technique.

She specializes in helping women with problems ranging from incontinence to weakened abdominal, hip, gluteal muscles (like myself and we have been working together and she is phenomenal!!)

«Right after delivery you can start to do Kegels to improve the pelvic floor muscles that have been weakened with a vaginal delivery,» Ross says.

When Traci Powell (pictured left) was 19 years old, she was diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited neurological disorder that weakened her muscles.

Stimulating weakened muscles with a pattern of electrical signals produced by healthy muscles may encourage them to regenerate and dramatically improve their function.

Dr. Satish Rattan, Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Jefferson's Sidney Kimmel Medical College, together with Drs. Jagmohan Singh and Ipsita Mohanty, used altered copies of the body's own genetic make - up — small RNA fragments (microRNAs) that regulate the target gene RhoA / ROCK — in order to strengthen or weaken the muscle tone of the sphincter.

About six in 100,000 babies are born with centronuclear myopathy, which weakens skeletal muscles so severely that children have trouble eating and breathing and often die before age 18.

While patients treated longer term with doxorubicin often develop cardiomyopathy — the weakening of the heart muscle — patients treated with Doxil do not typically develop the same side effect.

Back pain The supporting muscles around your spine become less resilient with age; sitting hunched over a computer all day weakens them further.

A physical therapist can also provide you with a complete muscular evaluation and determine areas of muscle weakens or imbalances and create a program to address those needs, making modifications as you progress.

Lifestyle Change Given that the weakening of the pelvic muscles accounts to a greater percentage for the urine leaks, a menopausal woman would consider starting with strengthening these muscles.

When you sit with your shoulders rolled forward (as most of us do), we tighten our chest muscles and weaken our upper back muscles.

As with most pain, anti-inflammatories are prescribed as are orthotics, which only support the dysfunction and weaken foot muscles.

If you connect the two tight muscle groups and the two weakened muscle groups with two straight lines, they form a cross shape, giving the condition its name.

If you take too much zinc (more than 50 mg absorbed) that can have negative effects — weakening of immune system, metabolic rate and HDL (good cholesterol) decrease, compromise muscle recovery and growth, interfere with copper uptake.

Another term associated with weakened pelvic floor muscles is «prolapse.»

With the weakening of this muscle layer, it becomes less firm, hence the fat layer above it loses a stable base to rest on.

The pain and weakened tissue the rash leaves in its wake can have far - reaching consequences, and one client in particular who has successfully narrowed her diastasis and has a fully functional core, is still dealing with a lot of residual muscle and skin softness where her PUPPS was the worst, and the common theory among other fit pros and therapists I polled was that fat seems to gravitate to those weakened areas, perpetuating the look of pregnancy long after a core has healed and baby is walking.

Fran Stewart, a nurse continence advisor (NCA) in Toronto, sees a lot of patients with weakened pelvic floor muscles.

Altering your plan with lighter weights, higher reps, more isolation movements and shorter rest periods is only going to weaken the training stimulus on your muscles and have the opposite effect that you're striving for.

Straining when you make a bowel movement or doing lower - body exercises with heavy weights and poor form can weaken these muscles, too.

In addition to your skin losing its natural elasticity and fat content during the natural aging process, your facial muscles can also weaken with age.

Rear or full support wheelchairs can help tone weakened leg muscles because they are still being used with the support of the wheelchair.

However, they can suffer from certain heart ailments including, but not limited to heart failure, chronic valvular disease that occurs once the valves begin to weaken with age and myocardial disease that happens when the heart enlarges due to weakening of the muscle.

Thin cats should be more susceptible to dehydration because much of the body's water is stored in muscle; and cats with the weakened kidneys (low specific gravity urine) that many elderly cats have, would not be able to conserve their water well.

Liver problems (including the above symptoms, plus dark urine, yellowing of the gums, skin or eyes), facial itching resulting in scratching or bleeding tendencies Underlying kidney disease may become apparent Rare cases of myasthenia gravis (severely weakened muscles, difficulty swallowing) Unusually tired, fever (temperature over 103ºF), bruising or bleeding If you notice any of these symptoms or anything else unusual, contact your veterinarian Can this drug be given with other drugs?

As the muscles weaken the bladder will fill with urine and overflow.

Sometimes muscles associated with the affected nerves may weaken due to herniated discs, resulting in additional impairments.