Sentence examples for brief contraction from inspiring English sources

With demand weakening in the main export markets, a brief contraction in output is possible.

Precise needling of myofascial trigger points provokes a brief contraction of the muscle fibres.

The decrement was associated with a significant reduction in VA during the sustained, but not the brief, contraction.

Furthermore, the brief contraction of the respiratory muscles is unlikely to have any beneficial effect on respiratory muscles, which have a high concentration of slow twitch fibers for endurance.

Taken together, the above studies provide a comprehensive picture of the manner in which myotonia improves following brief contractions, but these studies had not examined changes in myotonia during the course of repetitive fatigue-inducing contractions.

The KE strength losses noted in the brief (∼10%) and sustained (∼8%) MVCs performed after play in the cool condition are similar (∼9%) to those reported during brief contractions performed after 3 h of match-play in similar environmental conditions.

Slowed muscle relaxation is the contractile hallmark of myotonia congenita, a disease caused by genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency, which improves with antecedent brief contractions ("warm-up phenomenon").

For instance, it is generally accepted that neuromuscular transmission and action potential propagation along with muscle fibres (sarcolemma excitability) remain unchanged with acute hypoxia in relaxed muscles or during brief contractions.

Using a reflex hammer, the physician taps a tendon while the patient is relaxed and observes the response usually a single brief, brisk contraction of the appropriate muscle.

Typically, a brief involuntary contraction and change of resistance were perceived when the tip of the spinal needle entered the fascia and muscle.

This test has been able to detect differences between inflammatory and non inflammatory patients in the absence of changes in the classical GS test that evaluates a brief maximal contraction [ 3].