The participants were asked to bend forward as far as possible with knee, arms and fingers extended and the chiropractor measured the distance between the fingertips and the floor (finger-floor distance, FFD).
Mobility was tested by measuring finger to floor distance (FFD) when bending forward from a standing position [ 23] with knee, arms and fingers extended, which is considered to be a measure for combined spine and pelvic mobility [ 23].
Plays: down on one knee, arms out in a flamboyant gesture (think Shakespeare).
Twenty police officers dressed in sweats and T-shirts lunge on bent knees, arms stretched toward the ceiling.
BEFORE embarking on this review, I sat on the floor in a fetal position, knees tucked into chest, head curled into knees, arms wrapped tightly around my shins.
In the center of the facade above the door is a remarkably expressive soapstone carving of St. Francis on his knees, arms thrown open to receive the stigmata.
He preferred to shoot himself section by section -- actually, the shutter was snapped by an assistant -- focusing on hands, fingers, knees, arms, feet, genitals, navel, back.
However, there are occasions which still have me falling to my knees, arms outstretched to the unanswering sky, pleading, "Why, Lord?
At Tate Liverpool, the rubbish drifts under the bits of Greek statuary, another kind of historical litter of knees, arms, heads, decorated pots, pert arses and partial bodies, many of which were collected by the 19th-century Lancashire industrialist Henry Blundell.
