What's the difference between bracing and invigorating?

Bracing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace
  • (a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
  • (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
  • (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Invigorating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invigorate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
  • (2) "This will transform and invigorate the whole nature of Scottish television news while the parallel use of web platforms will engage and involve viewers in a way which has never been ventured on this scale."
  • (3) David Folkerts-Landau, chief economist with Deutsche Bank, has also said the influx of refugees has “the potential not just to invigorate our economy but to protect prosperity for future generations”.
  • (4) To the dark immensity of material Nature's indifference we can oppose only the brief light, like a lamp in a cabin, of our consciousness; the invigorating benison of Walden is to make us feel that the contest is equal, and fair.
  • (5) As a journalist, I confess that watching her is both invigorating and rather intimidating.
  • (6) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
  • (7) Barack Obama is pinning his hopes on a re-invigorated Iraqi army and moderate Syrian rebels to help defeat militants who are menacing northern Iraq and Syria, as part of a new, detailed strategy to step up American military intervention to confront the movement.
  • (8) Spurs were invigorated and when Kane curled in a beauty two minutes later, taking aim from a position where most players would not even have thought a shot was on, the ground was in a state of near-euphoria.
  • (9) The treatment of 488 cases with anorexy in children showed that the curative effect of the group using Chinese medicines based on the differentiation of symptoms and signs by (1) activating the Spleen, (2) invigorating and activating the spleen was significantly higher than the control using concentrated vitamin B complex (P less than 0.001).
  • (10) At first glance Van Gaal resembled a chef who had been asked to provide a roast dinner, only to find that there was no meat in the fridge, yet United’s manager was invigorated by the challenge of solving the tactical puzzle and Watford struggled to come to terms with the visitors’ fluid formation at first.
  • (11) Before she appeared on stage alongside her father, speakers warmed up the crowd with the invigorating soul classic Midnight Train to Georgia.
  • (12) This study investigated, with microelectrode technic, the effects of electrical activities in pacemaker cells of sinoatrial node by Qixue injection consisting of Ginseng, Astragali and Angelicae sinensis, which may replenish the Qi and invigorate the circulation of blood.
  • (13) Following recent advances in molecular and cell biology, development of hepatocyte transplantation has been considerably invigorated.
  • (14) "The effects of inbreeding may not be as noticeable in the first generation as the invigoration immediately apparent after crossing".
  • (15) Smethers is hoping to tap into the new energy of an invigorated women’s movement, which has seen the emergence of online campaigns such as the Everyday Sexism project, and No More Page 3 .
  • (16) Such action invigorates reflection, and vice versa.
  • (17) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
  • (18) Hopefully the Chancellor is invigorated following her trip yesterday to a beer tent in Abensberg, Bavaria.... More liquidity needed.
  • (19) White announced his role on the Record Store Day website , saying he would be "proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves."
  • (20) It started in the community but it has invigorated the women’s movement and brought coalitions together with a real impact in every direction.” We’ll find out which direction today.