Sentence examples for rigid instrument from inspiring English sources

A tube that could be inserted down the esophagus and upon which a light was mounted to illuminate the area visualized was invented in about 1889; this rigid instrument was soon replaced by the semiflexible gastroscope, developed by Rudolf Schindler in 1932, and then by the flexible fibre-optic gastroscope, developed by Basil Hirschowitz in 1957.

Cross-fiber massage (also known as deep transverse or friction massage) involves applying the finger/s or a rigid instrument directly over a tissue lesion and transverse to the direction of the underlying collagen fibers.

In pedicle screw fixation surgery, rigid instruments are inserted into a vertebral body.

The long, rigid instruments and cameras typically used in laparoscopic surgery are constrained by the entry incision.

Laparoscopic reconstructive surgery is associated with a steep learning curve related to the use of two-dimensional (2D) vision and rigid instruments.

"Whereas with this, rather than just having rigid instruments, you have like little hands on the end of it that move around like your own hands.

Flexible endoscopy and concurrent endoscopic ultrasound using a high-frequency catheter probe have decreased the rate of perforation that occurs with rigid instruments [ 8].

This should be assessed using rigid instruments (e.g. the ends of dental mirror handles) and a score allocated to affected teeth.

8 After feasibility and safety of the TVC using rigid instruments and laparoscopes was shown in case series, 28– 33 it was confirmed in nonrandomized studies comparing TVC and standard LC.

Surgeons typically removed significant portions of the lamina and the facet joints in order to visualize the shoulder of the traversing nerve root for safety and due to the constraints of rigid instruments, such as Kerrison rongeurs, in attempting to access impinging tissue in the lateral recess and foramen.

Pain is avoided through the use of gentle clinical techniques with non-rigid instruments, and non-use of uterine elevators.