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extensor

Anatomy any muscle that stretches or extends an arm, leg, or other bodily part
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El objetivo de este estudio fue identificar las distancias de origen de este nervio con respecto a la linea biepicondilea (LBE) y analizar su distribucion nerviosa a nivel del musculo extensor radial largo del carpo.
The positioning of CP child in hammock improves vestibular stimulation and reduces the extensor tone in CP child.14
The lesions in keratosis pilaris can be very similar to lichen spinulosus, but usually they don't coalesce into plaques and are commonly present on the extensor surfaces of the arms, thighs, and cheeks.
In an Indian study 79% in the infantile atopic dermatitis patients had facial involvement, 42% had flexors affected, 52.3% had extensor involvement and 5.7% had both flexors and extensors affected, while in childhood group the corresponding figures were 74.5%, 35.5%, 56.32% and 8.24% respectively.
Pavol e Grabiner (2000) relataram nao haver influencia das posicoes sentada e supina no aPT extensor, enquanto Guex e colaboradores (2013) encontraram variacoes do aPT flexor entre essas posicoes, porem, a restricao do arco de movimento adotado por esses estudos pode significar uma limitacao importante.
Pre- and post-test of trunk extensor endurance are 64.78s, 35.85s, and 97.39s, 36.48s, respectively, the P = 0.00 (P < 0.05).
Needle electroneuromyography (ENMG) showed no results of axon damage in the extensor incidis, extensor digitorum communis, innerved by the radial nerve, or in the abductor pollicis brevis muscles innerved by the median nerve (Table 1).
Between 2002 and 2012 17 patients were treated for a soft tissue sarcoma involving the knee extensor apparatus in one institution.
CMAPs: compound muscle action potentials; Rt: right; Lt: left; Flex: flexor; Ext: extensor. (b) Pre- and post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post hemisection Recorded Lt Lt Rt Rt side flex ext flex ext Stimulated Rt pyramid side Pre- and post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post hemisection Recorded Lt Lt Rt Rt side flex ext flex ext Stimulated Rt pyramid side https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5627890
(a) After osteotomy of the displaced lateral epicondylar fracture, the fragment contains lateral collateral ligament and extensor muscles.
(1995) reported that individuals with a poor back extensor muscle strength, have three times greater low back pain scores than those with normal muscle strength.
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