Posts Tagged ‘joints’
Movement cancer
It starts small. An ankle sprain when you’re twenty. After three weeks, it feels better so you move on, but with an almost imperceptible decrease of 10° in dorsiflexion. Every cycle of three weeks thereafter comes another layer of the compensation as the nervous system adapts to the altered ground reaction forces. A neuroplastic adaptation…
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Are you the convex or the concave?
Two bones articulate to form a joint. Each of them is shaped to accommodate the other and to allow the movement that the joint is designed for. In most joints, the end of one bone is convex and the end of the other is concave. Neither the convex nor the concave is the right or…
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