Sentence examples for limb support from inspiring English sources

The artiodactyl method of limb support through the third and fourth toes, with the attendant lengthening of lower limb bones, has frequently led to a fusion of the two principal metacarpal and metatarsal (midfoot) bones in the forelegs and hindlegs, respectively, forming cannon bones.

This has been called paraxonic support and is contrasted with the mesaxonic limb support of the other great order of herbivorous mammals, the perissodactyls (rhinoceros, horse, tapir), in which the weight-bearing axis passes through the third or central toe alone.

Another aspect of limb support for patients with Ilizarov fixators is wheelchair modification.

Subjects wearing either orthosis walked slower during stair locomotion and with a shorter right single limb support time during descent.

The ontogeny of bipedal walking is considered uniquely challenging, due in part to the balance requirements of single limb support.

Main Outcome Measures: Single limb support duration (SLSD) of the lower extremities (LEs) and step frequency during stepping-in-place and during gait.

The second trend involved shortening the trunk, relocating the shoulder blades, and, most important, steadily increasing the emphasis on hind-limb support and truncal erectness.

Affected and unaffected single-limb support (SLS) and initial double-limb support (DLS) were compared.

Compared with inexperienced wearers, experienced subjects showed significantly reduced frontal IA with increased ankle pronator moments during single-limb support (p < 0.05).

During double-limb support (DLS), they showed significantly increased magnitudes of the frontal RCIA at toe-off and contralateral heel-strike, and reduced DLS time (p < 0.05) but unaltered mean RCIA over DLS.

In the sagittal plane, the posterior velocity of the belt led to an anterior RCIA (posterior RCIA in OW) with increasing anterior IA during early double-limb support phase, and reduced posterior RCIA (p < 0.009) with an increased anterior IA (p < 0.001) during the remainder of the phase.