The effect of posture on symptoms is the primary distinguishing feature of NC: symptoms are typically exacerbated when the spine is extended (in upright stance when standing or walking) and eased when the spine is flexed (stooping forwards or sitting).
Caught between wrath and terror, she seems to rear away even as she stoops forward.
He stooped forward over the coffee table, picked up the girl's glass, and moved it to a coaster.
The old man walked by with the same hesitant shuffle, his feet dragging as he stooped forward and followed his shadow across the road.
After the band came a throng of monks in maroon-and-saffron robes, and at its center was the Dalai Lama, ambling up the path from his office with a side-to-side gait, stooped forward "like a middle linebacker," as his friend the late Abe Rosenthal, of the Times, once put it.
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher will be sidelined for three months after the shoulder-knack he sustained against Spurs rendered him physically incapable of doing that thing where he stoops forward at corners, points with one arm, wraps the other around an opponent's waist, then drags them to the ground while the ball is in mid-air.
Bruce McAvaney, adopting the unshakable postural arc of a veteran racing caller, stands from his chair and stoops forward slightly in the Seven broadcasting booth, binoculars firmly pressed to his eyes as he motors through another rapid-fire description of the action unfolding beyond the glass.
When you think of the Waca now you're inevitably drawn to the past, perhaps that classic Mark Ray photo of Doug Walters stooped forward in the press box during the 1993 Test – cigarettes close by, form guide at the ready and the races playing on a boxy old TV with a transistor radio on top – a man out of time in a venue that's also now a strange, living heritage piece.
The following inclusion criteria were applied: 1) ever experienced resting tremors and at least one of the following symptoms due to PD: slowed ability to start and continue movements; rigidity or inability to complete a movement; difficulty with balance or instability; stooped, forward-leaning posture; freezing or sudden, brief inability to move the feet; 2) willing to provide informed consent.
When you first see Ron, his shoulders are stooped and rolled forward, and it looks as if his body is collapsing, caving in on him like a piece of decaying fruit.
He has ranged far to his left, the way a shortstop does to cover a ground ball up the middle, and he has stooped so far forward while still keeping a leg under him that it looks as though he is bowing in deep humility to the baseball in his glove.
