(1) He drops his racquet in disbelief and the pair of them embrace at the net.
(2) Because of the recent rapid increase in the number of knee injuries related to racquet sports, the authors undertook a retrospective study of such injuries seen over a 5-year period at the Toronto Western Hospital Sports Medicine Institute.
(3) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
(4) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
(5) In the video posted on YouTube , the supervisor is seen running off court and shutting the gate, at which point Abedini beats the gate with his racquet and kicks it while shouting at the official.
(6) The effectiveness of cushion grip bands in reducing impact shock and vibration transfer, and slipping in tennis racquets has been investigated.
(7) You have a platform that very few people will ever have ... You hit a tennis ball with a racquet over a little net, and just think what you can do with that, beyond trying to win Wimbledon."
(8) The authors report that in a 5-year period, 17% of the injuries seen in a busy sports injuries clinic were associated with racquet sports, and over half of these were injuries to the knee.
(9) Frequently during his defeat of Raonic, met with a line call he didn’t like, he would gawp at the linesman in mock shock, and drop his racquet and ball where he stood, drawing inevitable laughter.
(10) He hits a shot wide and smacks the barrier with his racquet.
(11) Changes in racquet variables, court surface, footwear, and string tension play an important part in treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries.
(12) Laser beams were employed for precision adjustment of the spatial racquet position and the ball impact location.
(13) Racquet sports involve sharp, side-to-side movements and impose significant valgus and rotatory stresses on the knee.
(14) Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in racquet sport participation.
(15) Some of the more common racquet sport injuries include tennis leg, jumper's knee, patello-femoral pain, meniscal injuries, bursitis, and tendinitis.
(16) was used together with a standard tennis racquet for the investigation.
(17) Middle-aged men, however, especially those with known coronary disease or coronary risk factors, should approach racquet sports with caution, and might benefit from timely medical advice.
(18) With its 1080p screen, 90-degree field of view and 360-degree head-tracking, the fundaments are in place – it seems the device will also recognise Move as a virtual controller, which means you’ll be able to look down in the game world and see it in your hands, perhaps as a gun, a torch, or a tennis racquet.
(19) Over 90% of the patients returned to their chosen racquet sport within 3 months of the arthroscopy and most were playing at a similar performance level to that before the initial injury.
(20) Most fractures were thought to have occurred while the patient was swinging a racquet, golf club, or baseball bat.
Sinew
Definition:
(n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
(n.) Muscle; nerve.
(n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
(v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the "Bergmannsheil" Hospital in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, 11 distal ruptures of the biceps sinew in 10 patients were operatively treated during 1985 and 1989.
(2) It means a fundamentally more unstable Middle East, with the prospect of a nuclear arms race in the region.” The foreign secretary called on the western powers at the talks to “strain every sinew to get a deal over the finishing line”.
(3) Suture was with cotton or human hair, acacia and other thorns, ant jaws, and sinew, with or without a drain.
(4) There were fat cats, but there were many more lawyers working long hours and straining every sinew for their clients.
(5) Abuse is being continued, perpetuated, right under the noses of judges and police – the very institutions that should be protecting the vulnerable with every sinew of state power.” Labour MPs repeatedly pressed Heald for a timetable for the introduction of the amending legislation to implement the ban but he could only promise to do so “shortly”.
(6) I think it very likely that artists north and south of the border will strain every sinew to keep cultural relationships strong and thriving, but I fear that the upheaval of moving towards independence for Scotland may unintentionally break or damage a great many cultural links and ties.
(7) The clothes – a wedding headdress like an amphibian mating display, scarlet armour striated with sinews – were certainly more dramatic than the actors, and won Ishioka an Oscar.
(8) The trick is often to cook them slowly, taking advantage of their bones, sinew and fat to keep them moist and juicy.
(9) Furthermore a syntropy with the cervicobrachial syndrome, the humeroscapular periarthritis, calcifications of bursa and insertions of the sinews, the gout and the carpal tunnel syndrome were found.
(10) He was a fiercely patriotic Belgian poet – it could be said, the Rupert Brooke of the the Belgians – who, after the German invasion of his country, had written deeply felt and stirring poems, to summon up Belgian blood, to stiffen Belgian sinews.
(11) Partly also in tribute to Penderecki's love of trees, Greenwood found an oak leaf in his garden, and transformed the contours of its veins and sinews into musical material.
(12) Stripping of animal sinews between the clenched posterior teeth has been recorded on film as a common task activity in traditional aboriginal society.
(13) "We recognise that, as a government, we have to strain every sinew to do things that help support the economy to grow, and capital spending is a very important part of that.
(14) The prince told senior figures - including the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and US secretary of state, Hilary Clinton - that they must "strain every sinew" to find ways to halt the destruction of forests across the world.
(15) But when reshaping services and making efficiencies, councils must stretch every sinew to protect the vital frontline services that families rely on."
(16) The same two City players combined later in the first half but Weidenfeller thwarted Agüero in similar fashion and he made it a hat-trick of saves when he stretched every sinew to tip the striker's dipping 20-yard effort over the bar in the 35th minute.
(17) What I’m saying is that party members and increasingly the country want to see us oppose these airstrikes, which are not the solution, with every sinew of our being.
(18) The endless heavy traffic drains them psychologically and the struggle to make a living … strains the sinews of their bodies.” It’s a depressing portrait of life in Egypt’s bustling capital.
(19) In 3 cases the rupture of the biceps sinew was not caused by any outward influence.
(20) McFall, who also sat on the commission, said banks needed to ensure “they are straining every sinew to put customers back at the heart of retail banking.