(1) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(2) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(3) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
(4) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.
(5) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
(6) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(7) The purpose of this project was to determine if commercially available braces could be shown to produce objective evidence of medial stabilization of the knee.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Effective bracing of the severely spastic wrist and hand may not be possible.
(10) All patients were placed in Minerva braces postoperatively.
(11) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(12) It is concluded that treatment with a patellar brace with a lateral pad is not likely to succeed in the majority of patients with retropatellar pain syndrome.
(13) Costa got his second while David Silva and substitute Álvaro Morata also got braces and Vitolo opened his international account as the former world champions ran riot.
(14) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(15) Anti-globalisation activists and international bankers are bracing themselves for a week of street action and possible confrontation planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague.
(16) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(17) This retrospective study of lateral electrical surface stimulation (LESS) treatment for patients with progressive idiopathic scoliosis was performed to document patient compliance in the standard electrical stimulation program and to gain objective data to perform a relative comparison of electrical stimulation and bracing compliance.
(18) The brace has been used for 22 years and found practical and reliable.
(19) Shortening in severe comminution was the main complication and was not controlled by supplementary cast-bracing.
(20) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
Handcuffs
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
(2) · Golden Handcuffs [which is to be published in November] is about two graduates, Abby and Mike, who find themselves working with, for and against each other in a large City firm during their first year out of university.
(3) The handcuffs were taken off a few hours before he died the following day.
(4) The prime minister is clearly not keen to go to an election on his climate credentials, and now he’s just digging himself in deeper.” The acting Greens leader, Scott Ludlam, told reporters in Perth that Abbott was trying to “handcuff” Australia to the coal and gas industry.
(5) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
(6) Breivik told the court he planned to handcuff her, before "decapitating" her using a bayonet on his rifle and then filming the execution on an iPhone.
(7) They may be asked to undertake "golden handcuffs" agreements to stick with a challenge to the end or pay a fee of up to £500 for every six months of legal advice they have received.
(8) Mayor Betsy Hodges made the request following a day of demonstrations by activists who say that Clark, 24, was unarmed and in handcuffs when a police officer shot him in the head.
(9) Many used the hashtag to share their disgust about Ahmed’s treatment: Christopher Emdin (@chrisemdin) We cannot say we want more STEM graduates and then simultaneously arrest STEM enthusiasts #IAmAhmed #IStandWithAhmed September 16, 2015 Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) The look on this kid's face while he's wearing a NASA shirt and handcuffs should haunt all of us.
(10) He handcuffs me and then helps me into the van where I join several other arrestees from the protest.
(11) Hopefully we should get a chance to speak to her soon.” Prison guards said earlier that the four backpackers had not returned to the jail after the hearing, and did not have to wear handcuffs.
(12) At a pre-trial hearing they said an independent witness reported seeing Harwood knee a man in the kidney as he lay on the ground in handcuffs.
(13) The family has been told that officers used CS gas and pepper spray, and hit Bayoh with batons, as they restrained him with handcuffs and leg restraints on the pavement where he then lost consciousness, dying before he arrived at hospital.
(14) Moments after the committee chairman, John Whittingdale MP, suspended the meeting, a man wearing a checked shirt was seen outside the meeting room at the House of Commons in handcuffs.
(15) However, in the virtual world, e-readers have digital handcuffs to stop you from giving, lending or selling a book, as well as licences forbidding that.
(16) "This includes loss of liberty for 11 years 43 days and all the other hardships which arose from it including damage to my reputation through being branded a murderer and effects on my family life including divorce, separation from my son throughout most of his childhood, being in custody during the deaths of my daughter and my father and having to attend their funerals in handcuffs and effects on my relationships with other family members."
(17) He had used a level of force that was "unnecessary and disproportionate to the circumstances" and caused further distress to Farmer by detaining him in handcuffs despite it being obvious he had the wrong man, it added.
(18) A performance of a song inspired by the protests, Watani Ana , (“I am my homeland” in Arabic) had Assad forces knocking down the door of Jandali’s parents’ home in Homs: “Handcuff my father, break my mother’s teeth and beat them both.
(19) Microsoft and Apple systems implement digital handcuffs – features specifically designed to restrict users.
(20) "The choice on the ballot paper is effectively between a box for yes and a box for handcuffs."