Sentence examples for maintain a contraction from inspiring English sources

Pilot testing revealed that many participants could not maintain a contraction intensity ≥ 30% MVC for 30 s.

He's going to raise both knees up simultaneously, maintaining a contraction through his abdominal area and maintaining that natural curve of the low back area, throughout this whole exercise.

Patients gripped a dynamometer for 3 minutes, maintaining a contraction pressure of one-third of their maximum voluntary contraction pressure.

"I will let you know if I switch from a super tampon to a mini," said Williams, who recently held a Kegel contest with her hairdresser and wardrobe mistress to see how long they could maintain a vaginal contraction.

Participants were instructed to maintain an isometric contraction at each progressed pressure level for ten seconds, before returning to a neutral position.

Simply breathe in and out through the nose, maintaining a slight contraction in the back of the throat.

The weaker relationship between high gamma/high frequency activity and R-RT could then be an indirect attentional one: if the subject concentrates on maintaining a strong contraction with correspondingly elevated levels of high gamma/high frequency activity, then they may be distracted by this effort and release RT prolonged.

Hiccups are caused by temporary muscle contractions of the diaphragm, so if you can manage to maintain a balance between the contraction and the expansion of your diaphragm, you can cure the hiccups.

Subjects were instructed to maintain a (30% maximum voluntary contraction) handgrip for the duration of a visual cue (1.7 s) during task blocks.

The assessment involves evaluation of the motor control strategy during a specific trunk muscle task – drawing in of the lower abdomen while maintaining an isometric contraction of the medial back muscles.

The geometry of the conduction fibers of ratite hearts confirms earlier observations on birds showing that the geometry of the conduction system and its component cells is adapted to hearts of different sizes and rates of contraction so as to maintain a differential in conduction velocities between the conduction system and the working fibers.