The Integrative Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Prevention Program
Mark C Houston in The Truth About Heart Disease, 2023
Abductor and Adductor Toners. Performed with machines, these exercises work the “outside” and “inside” of the thighs. To work the muscles on the outsides of your thighs (abductors), you sit in the machine, legs straight forward and resting on pads attached to weights, then spread them out to the sides. To work the muscles on the insides of your thighs (adductors), you do the reverse, beginning in a seated position, legs straight out in front but spread, then squeeze them together.Primary areas worked: abductors, adductorsSecondary areas worked: none
Bones and joints
David Heylings, Stephen Carmichael, Samuel Leinster, Janak Saada, Bari M. Logan, Ralph T. Hutchings in McMinn’s Concise Human Anatomy, 2017
Femur - bone of the thigh, with the ballshaped head at the proximal end for the hip joint; it is joined to the shaft by the neck at an angle of about 125°. The greater trochanter is the large prominence located laterally at the junction of the shaft and neck; the lesser trochanter is the smaller cone-shaped projection at the distal part of the neck and adjacent shaft, facing medially and posteriorly. The expanded distal end has curved medial and lateral condyles for the knee joint and on either side palpable prominences known as the medial and lateral epicondyles. The epiphysis at the distal end usually begins to ossify in the ninth foetal month, a fact of possible medicolegal significance as an indication of maturity.
Osteoporosis
Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, John Sutton Chair in Exercise, Nutrition, and the Older Woman, 2000
We recommend strength training exercises that target the major muscle groups of the body, particularly those involved in gait and balance, and those attached to the bones prone to osteoporotic fractures. These muscles are the quadriceps (front of the thighs), gluteals and hamstrings (buttocks and back of thighs), abductors (sides of thighs), back extensors (along the spine and lower back), and abdominal flexors (stomach), and dorsiflexors (anterior calf). Overall upper body strength is also important and can be improved by training the shoulders and chest, upper back, and arms. Chapter 2 provides specific exercise instructions and illustrations for each of these exercises.
A multi-body model for comparative study of cervical traction simulation – development, improvement and validation
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2019
Lawrence K. F. Wong, Zhiwei Luo, Nobuyuki Kurusu, Keiji Fujino
In both positions, the vertex of the traction angle is set at a fixed point at the chair, near the back of the first thoracic vertebra (T1) of the subject. In the simulation model, T1 connects the base of the cervical spine to the rest of the upper body. The upper limbs and forearm are modeled as rigid bodies and are connected to the shoulder with hinge joints. The hip joint is a hinge joint that connects to the thighs. Since the subject is heavy enough that the friction at the seat prevents the subject from sliding along the seat, the thighs and the rest of the lower body are modeled as fixed structure attached to the traction devices. This design allows the subject to remain stable during traction. It also matches the observed behavior of the human subjects in our radiographic experiment.
The impact of high BMI on acute changes in body composition following 90 min of running
Published in Cogent Medicine, 2018
Seth H. Brayton, Tyler A. Bosch, Anne E Bantle, James S. Hodges, Donald R. Dengel, Lisa S. Chow
Because the exercise intensity was conducive to fat oxidation (Egan & Zierath, 2013), our DXA measurements focused on changes in fat mass. Fat mass was measured in the following regions: total body, trunk, arm, leg, android, gynoid, abdominal subcutaneous, and abdominal visceral. Trunk fat mass included fat mass from the chest, abdomen, and pelvis region. Arm fat mass was calculated by summing fat content in both arms. Leg fat mass was calculated by summing fat content from both legs. The android region was defined as the trunk area approximately between the ribs and the pelvis. The upper boundary was set at 20% of the distance between the iliac crest and the base of the skull. The lower boundary was the top of the iliac crest. The gynoid region included the hips and upper thighs, overlapping both the leg and trunk regions. Visceral and subcutaneous fat were calculated from the android region. Subcutaneous and visceral fat were determined by examining the X-ray attenuation between the edge of the body and the outer edge of the abdominal cavity, as previously described (Kaul et al., 2012). Visceral fat was calculated by subtracting subcutaneous fat mass from the android region fat mass (Kaul et al., 2012).
Treating gynecological pain: key factors in promoting body awareness and movement in somatocognitive therapy (SCT). A case study of a physiotherapy student´s treatment approaches
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2022
Kristine Grimen Danielsen, Marit Fougner, Gro Killi Haugstad
After ensuring that the patient is prepared to approach this topic, the physiotherapy student seeks to make the vulvar area and related pain more concrete and easier to understand by educating her about the anatomy and function of the pelvic floor. She explains how muscular tensions and imbalances can result in pain, both locally and as referred pain in the groin and lower back: PS:This is exactly what we have done previously, but then we focused on the lower part here (curving her hand as a supporting floor under the pelvis entrance), that is, muscles that support our intestines. According to what we have noticed and talked about, we might suppose that you have tight muscles, especially in the front part of the pelvic floor (demonstrates with her hands on her own body). This can easily influence down your thighs, and indeed the entire body posture. For that reason, we have been concentrating on training the tilting of the pelvis to become more aware of the back part (turns the skeletal model over). Do you experience that you have better contact with your muscles now (pointing at her own pelvic area)?P:Yes, basically, I experience in a way that larger portions of the muscles are actively involved when practicing my pelvic movement.
Related Knowledge Centers
- Acetabulum
- Bone
- Femur
- Hinge Joint
- Femoral Head
- Pelvis
- Outline of Human Anatomy
- Hip
- Knee
- Ball-and-Socket Joint