Sentence examples for spine angle from inspiring English sources

The vertebral spine angle in the frontal plane is an important parameter in the assessment of scoliosis and may be obtained from panoramic X-ray images.

And now that he has split with his last swing coach, Hank Haney, there is no one to check or to validate the cloud of swing thoughts at once paranoid ("I'm cupping my wrist!") or falsely hopeful ("If I just hold my spine angle!") that invariably descend on the golfer who is doing badly.

Watson remembers exactly where he was, Harbour Town on Hilton Head in South Carolina in 1994, when he discovered what he now calls the Holy Grail of golf, though it's really just the venerable principle of keeping your shoulders level and maintaining a constant spine angle through the swing.

Give me a few days to see what the docs say, and we'll take a look at it". Bob Prichard, a sports biomechanics expert and the president of the Somax Performance Institute in suburban San Francisco, said that he believed that Woods's current knee problems were a result of his incorrect spine angle and that a video breakdown revealed that Woods's new swing was causing it.

However, low back pain did not modify regional differences in any lumbar spine angle or range of motion before or after adjustment for BMI.

Specifically, the tail-spine was bent backwards (lower spine angle) and had significantly more curvature as compared to the two other treatments (P <0.001; Table  1).

To evaluate biomechanically the relationships between the outcome of the Combined Elevation Test, its component joint motions, and thoracic spine angles.

The 3 groups were compared on the ratio of the lower to upper cervical spine angles and on the mean angular values for each segment in the cervical spine.

The drill is started on the posterior superior iliac spine, angling lateral approximately 40° in relation to the sagittal plane and slightly cranially to achieve placement in the direction of the iliac wing (Fig. 5a).

LBP was not associated with differences in regional lumbar spine angles or range of motion, with the exception of maximal backward bending range of motion (F = 5.18, p = 0.007).

Lower lumbar (LLx), Upper lumbar (ULx) and total lumbar (TLx) spine angles were measured using an electromagnetic tracking system in static postures and across a range of functional tasks.