Sentence examples for less laxity from inspiring English sources

PCL-retaining prostheses had significantly less laxity at flexion than at extension (P = 0.0004 in varus, P = 0.0043 in valgus).

Post-hoc linear contrasts revealed that the swimming and basketball groups had significantly less laxity and higher stiffness than the control group (P < 0·05).

There was no significant difference in DI (laxity) postoperatively compared to preoperative values for control and operated limbs, but operated limbs had a significantly lower DI (less laxity) than control limbs at 1 and 20 weeks postoperatively (p = 0.04) (Fig. 1A).

In the early phase of rehabilitation, closed-chain exercise therapy is likely to give fewer patello-femoral complaints and less laxity than open-chain exercises (Trees et al. 2005, Wright et al. 2008, Anderson et al. 2009).

While it might be expected that joint stiffness, and development of osteophytes, might lead to less knee laxity in the presence of ACL deficiency, this is not always the case and in many cases, knees with marked laxity had macroscopically normal ACLs.

We hypothesised that greater instability would be associated with greater angular laxity and less passive stiffness.

This is because at a higher em max jobs have more laxity and are thus less susceptible to miss their deadlines.

It is possible to adapt the selected level of constraints, by reserving higher constraints to cases where it is not possible to obtain final satisfactory balance: less than 5° of residual frontal laxity in extension in each compartment, and a tibiofemoral gap difference not in excess to 3 mm between flexion and extension.

Possible explanations may be a greater tendency to fall, less muscular control, and increased ligament laxity in hip fracture patients [ 1, 2].

Our findings are comparable to those obtained by Mariani et al., who found that patients treated by direct repair had less favorable results in terms of laxity and range of motion than reconstructed patients [ 22].

The problem, these voices suggested, lay less in the claims' extravagance than the laxity of rules under which they were made; the solution, no less surely, would require nothing more than a tightening of the rules already laid down by Parliament itself, and a stricter audit.