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  • Ligaments are non elastic tissues which connect bones to bones and stabilize joints.

    Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Athletes Beware -- Aches, Pains and Strains; How Did That Happen? Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2011

  • Contributing Factors: Ligaments are more lax loose during pregnancy, which can contribute to instability and also increase the stress to the spine and its supporting muscles.

    Abby Sims: Preventing Pregnancy Aches and Pains Abby Sims 2011

  • Ligaments in his wrists and elbows twitch at meteoric speeds, change tempo seamlessly.

    Colors of Music Matthew J. Robinson 2011

  • Contributing Factors: Ligaments are more lax loose during pregnancy, which can contribute to instability and also increase the stress to the spine and its supporting muscles.

    Abby Sims: Preventing Pregnancy Aches and Pains Abby Sims 2011

  • When I was thirty-one, I was in yet another car accident in which I tore both of my Anterior Crucial Ligaments — another hindrance.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • When I was thirty-one, I was in yet another car accident in which I tore both of my Anterior Crucial Ligaments — another hindrance.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • Called RAPHaEL Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments, the robot can hold heavier, solid objects, as well as light or delicate ones such as a light bulb or an egg.

    RAPHaEL: Robotic Hand With A Delicate Touch | Impact Lab 2009

  • Ligaments, muscle and bone strength around the foot and ankle need to be gradually conditioned.

    Stefan Aschan: Bare Foot Running 2009

  • Ligaments, once thought to play a leading role, are really the posts along an intricate series of membrane fences, according to the research.

    Mapping the Face 2007

  • Ligaments are they that tie the bones together, and other parts to the bones, with their subserving tendons: membranes 'office is to cover the rest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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