extensor muscle

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extensor muscle

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muscle producing extension, that is, a movement that produces straightening, or an increase in the angle of a joint.

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In the current study, although the FI values of the flexor and extensor muscles of the AS patients were lower than those of the control group, the difference was not statistically significant.

The Effect of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Treatment on Muscle Performance and Endurance in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Prospective Follow-Up Study

2006) Low back pain patients demonstrate increased hip extensor muscle activity during standardized submaximal rotation efforts.

Effect of Upper-Extremity Strengthening Exercises on the Lumbar Strength, Disability and Pain of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study

The DBRN traversed the supinator muscle between the superficial and deep layers, emerging in the posterior compartment deep to the superficial layer of the extensor muscles, immediately providing the short branches to the ED, extensor digiti minimi, and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles.

A variant extensor indicis muscle and the branching pattern of the deep radial nerve could explain hand functionality and clinical symptoms in the living patient

The frequency order was randomized to the knee extensor muscle group.

Effect of adjusting pulse durations of functional electrical stimulation cycling on energy expenditure and fatigue after spinal cord injury

38), (12) In addition, the present findings are similar to findings from Clark et al (12) and Sullivan and Hawthorne (39) of individuals with systolic HF, where reduced knee extensor muscle strength (measured isokinetically) was related to decreased exercise tolerance (measured by peak oxygen consumption).

Comparisons of Dyspnea, Fatigue, and Exercise Intolerance Between Individuals with Heart Failure with High Versus Low Knee Extensor Muscle Strength

There was a significant but weak inverse correlation between present pain and static back extensor muscle endurance (r = -0.

Relationship between pain intensity, activity limitation, static and dynamic back muscles endurance in patients with non-specific long-term low-back pain

Practically the hip joint has to reach a certain extended angle for the swing phase to be initiated,6 and the extensor muscles to be unloaded.

The Inhibition of short latency reflex linking the pretibial muscles to quadriceps motoneurones during stance to swing transition in humans

However, more studies of extensor muscle strengthening need to be done because this approach may be very helpful in the long term.

What treatment works best for tennis elbow?

Flexor muscles do the pulling up and extensor muscles pull the arm back down.

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The continuation of the extensor retinaculum over the dorsal aspect of the metacarpal and digital region intermingles its fibers with the running tendons of the lateral digital extensor and common digital extensor muscles (the latter with two tendons).

The suspensory apparatus and digital flexor muscles of the llama (Lama glama) 1. The thoracic limb/El aparato suspensorio y los musculos flexores digitales de la llama (Lama glama) 1. El miembro toracico

Extensor pollicis tertius: an additional extensor muscle to the thumb.

Tendones anomalos del extensor de la mano y su importancia clinica

For these exercises, the subjects repeated the exercise as described above but were told to concentrate on using abdominal (rectus abdominus) and back extensor muscles.

Muscle use during isometric co-contraction of agonist-antagonist muscle pairs in the upper and lower body compared to abdominal crunches and a commercial multi gym exerciser