Shoulder in Biological News

Rotator cuff tears: Are they all in the family?

... of the rotator cuff on the undersurface of the shoulder cap (acromion) when moving the arm This may ... own injuries Orthopaedic surgeons can initiate a shoulder stretching and strengthening program for patients ... cuff disease, it may limit the negative impact on shoulder function. The research results can also lead ...

Closing the gap between fish and land animals

... allowing us to reconstruct the whole head, shoulder girdle and part of the pelvis", says Professor ... of Tiktaalik and Acanthostega. "However, the shoulder girdle and pelvis are almost identical to those of Acanthostega, and the shoulder girdle is quite different from that of Tiktaalik ...

Study finds pitching mound height affects throwing motion, injury risk

... to potential injuries because of stress on the shoulder and elbow. The study was led by William ... determining if there is increased stress on the shoulder or the elbow based on the height from which the ... the forces and torques generated at the shoulder and elbow. We found that compared to flat ...

Cell 'anchors' required to prevent muscular dystrophy

... that makes the protein. They found newborn mice missing ankB had splayed shoulder bones, which stuck out of the animals' backs like wings, rather than lying ... and saw images of people with a form of muscular dystrophy who had splayed shoulder bones," said Bennett, "This opened our eyes to the possibility that, in ...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

... offered in some of their vehicles that can assist in parking or detect lane markers and trigger alarms if the drivers are coming too close to the shoulder of the road. For the DARPA challenge, they developed a more sophisticated package of sensors that included GPS coupled with a camera and a ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009

... ACS' monthly Journal of Proteome Research , scientists describe the development of free tools using Amazon's "cloud computing" service that can help shoulder scientists' data crunching needs with its brawny network of computers. In the report, Brian D. Halligan and colleagues note that a major challenge ...

The life histories of the earliest land animals

... up. The pattern of muscle attachments on the upper arm bone changes from a "fish-like" to a "land animal-like" configuration, and the shape of the shoulder joint changes so that it becomes possible for the animal to "lock" its forelimb into a weight-bearing position. Acanthostega has feebler limbs ...

Color test enhances tomato analyzer software

... and marketing. In tomatoes, for example, color and color uniformity contribute directly to quality and marketability. The presence of yellow shoulder disorder, or YSD, a ripening disorder that results in blotchy discoloration under the skin of the tomato, is a major quality issue. Color ...

Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction, Stanford researcher warns

... incentives to encourage establishing crops on these lands," Gibbs said. This is because farmers who convert degraded land to cropland must shoulder the costs of fertilizer and learn improved soil management practices to make the lands productive, whereas farmers who clear forested land often ...

Lab test for allergy scoops national

... W Angus Wallace, Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at The University of Nottingham, whose special interests lie in the fields of shoulder surgery, sports injuries, osteoporosis, biomechanics and research into passenger safety in aircraft and cars. Guests included senior figures from the ...

Anabolic steroids provide a competitive edge in power lifting years after doping has ended

... after the athletes had ceased to take the drugs. The researchers found that while physical traces of the drug no longer remained, changes in the shoulder and quadriceps still gave lifters an advantage years later. The research was conducted by Anders Eriksson and Lars-Eric Thornell, Department of ...

Fujitsu Announces PalmSecure(TM) LOGONDIRECTOR

... for companies from both a security and cost perspective. "Shoulder surfing," a common practice where perpetrators steal passwords by looking over the shoulder of the victim, poses a critical threat for identity theft. Moreover, IT departments traditionally spend numerous hours re-assigning new passwords to ...

Baseball diamonds: the lefthander's best friend

... pitcher generally is much more difficult to steal off, as, from his stretch, he peers directly at the runner; the right-hander must look over his shoulder and wheel to first base, giving the runner more of a warning of the pitcher's intent. Positions advantageous to southpaws are pitching, first ...

Backpack straps can decrease blood flow in the shoulder and arm

... or more. They also found that strap pressures with loads as small as ten percent of bodyweight can obstruct localized blood flow and contribute to shoulder fatigue. This year the team has examined pack straps and adults. In some professions, such as the military, firefighting and mountain rescue, the ...

Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands

... exposed by one of Syncrudes 100-ton electric shovels approximately 60 metres below ground surface. It is complete except for its left forelimb and shoulder blade. It was transported to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where it was prepared for research observations and exhibit and studied by Druckenmiller and ...

Asia's odd-ball antelope faces migration crisis

... due to poaching for horns used in traditional Chinese medicines and competition with livestock. Standing just under two feet at the shoulder and weighing about 50 pounds, the most striking feature of the saiga is its large nose, or proboscis. The function of this unusual nose is not ...

A fossilized giant rhino bone questions the isolation of Anatolia, 25 million years ago

... are considered to have been the largest terrestrial mammals that ever existed, equal in size to the largest mammoths (with a height to the shoulder estimated to be 5 meters or more, and a body weight of 15 to 20 tons). As well as this specimen of Paraceratherium, known to have existed notably ...

International team announces discovery of massive Jurassic marine reptile

... used to identify the specimen and compare it to other known plesiosaurs: portions of the skull, including the teeth; much of the neck and back; the shoulder girdle; and a near-complete forelimb. One of the key questions researchers hope to answer is whether this specimen represents a species new to ...

Thinking makes it so: Science extends reach of prosthetic arms

... Its not very common to flex your chest muscle to close your hand or bend your wrist, said Kuiken. Quite frankly, most people with a unilateral shoulder disarticulation amputation dont wear a prosthesis at all: Its just too cumbersome. More moves While TMR is more intuitive and natural, Kuiken ...

Male elephants get 'photo IDs' from scientists

... special treatment, with the scientists recording data such as tusk length, thickness, angle, arrangement, as well as other characteristics ear shape, shoulder height, tail length, and scars. These data revealed some 134 individual male elephants in a population of 991 elephants, with an adult male/female ...

Cigarette smoking impedes tendon-to-bone healing

... a group of four muscles and their tendons in the shoulder that provide rotation, elevate the arm and stabilize the shoulder joint. Rotator cuff tears involve one or more of ... may have a torn rotator cuff have no accompanying shoulder pain. What surgeons do know is that rotator ...

Scientists discover stem cell origin of neck and shoulders

... groups of stem cells making up the bones of the shoulder and neck and another making the muscles, a ... muscles also makes the skeletal regions of the shoulder girdle. This sheds new light on human diseases ... cells create not only the muscles of the neck and shoulder but also the skeletal structure where these ...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

... its small size. While large domestic water buffalo stand six feet at the shoulder and can weigh up to 2,000 pounds, B. cebuensis would have stood only ... as a tamaraw, is also a dwarf, although at about three feet tall at the shoulder and 500 pounds it is considerably larger than the newly discovered ....

Red flag for repetitive stress injuries identified for first time in humans

... they recruited 22 participants who were suffering from repetitive-stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, and other wrist and shoulder injuries, and nine healthy subjects. After a physical examination that rated the severity of symptoms ranging from pain to range of motion, ...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

... therapy may help rewire the brain and make weak limbs move better long afterwards." Previously, robotic devices have improved post-stroke shoulder and leg function. Cramer said this study is one of the first attempts to specifically aid hand function. Cramer presented HOWARD study findings ...

Monitoring poisons in the environment -- a woolly matter

... is hoped that sheep can be of future use in bio-remediation studies on brownfield sites. Experimental method: A handful of wool was taken from shoulder area of rare and heritage breeds of sheep grazing on hills in the Lake District and North Wales. The wool was then washed to ensure that only ...

Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared

... saiga antelope in an effort to help protect one of Asia's most bizarre-looking ?and endangered ?large mammals. Standing just under two feet at the shoulder and weighing about 50 pounds, the most striking feature of the saiga is its large nose, or proboscis, similar to a tapir. The function of this ...

Hopkins researchers discover genetic switch that turns off an oxygen-poor cell's combustion engine

... he said. Because the mitochondrion runs on oxygen, it doesn't work properly in hypoxic conditions, Dang explained. Instead, glycolysis is left to shoulder the burden of making ATP by being prodded into overdrive by HIF-1. And left to itself during hypoxia, the mitochondrion produces reactive oxygen ...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

... including moving fingers independently, says Clark. Existing prosthetic arms typically are controlled by signals from an intact muscle, such as a shoulder shrug, so only one movement can occur at a time, he adds. "The new arm will take the signals that go to all the different arm muscles at once, and ...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

... including moving fingers independently, says Clark. Existing prosthetic arms typically are controlled by signals from an intact muscle, such as a shoulder shrug, so only one movement can occur at a time, he adds. "The new arm will take the signals that go to all the different arm muscles at once, and ...

Study Holds Promise For New Way To Fight HIV

... - meaning gigantic antlers) lived from 400,000 years ago to its extinction 8000 years ago and would have towered over its descendant, reaching a shoulder height of around two metres with antlers spanning 3.5 metres (10 feet). Deer from around the world (including the southeast Asian axis deer, the ...

Extinct giant deer's descendant found in UK

... - meaning gigantic antlers) lived from 400,000 years ago to its extinction 8000 years ago and would have towered over its descendant, reaching a shoulder height of around two metres with antlers spanning 3.5 metres (10 feet). Deer from around the world (including the southeast Asian axis deer, the ...

K-State professors discover enzyme responsible for creation of a beetle's hard shell

... aircraft and military armor, Kramer said. "I sometimes speculate that we might help K-State coach Bill Snyder develop better football helmets and shoulder pads for his players," he said. Collaborative research with scientists at the University of Kansas is in the beginning stages to analyze ...

Defect in gene causes 'neuralgic amyotrophy'

... Neuralgic Amyotrophy is a painful disorder of the peripheral nervous system. This heritable disease causes prolonged acute attacks of pain in the shoulder or arm, followed by temporary paralysis. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected to the University ...

Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?

... to a geology research site in 2003. He photographed mid-distance shots of the large bear with characteristic grizzly features including a prominent shoulder hump, dark brown hair on and around the rear legs, and faded (grizzled) hair on the rest of the body. Then in the summer of 2004, Dr. England's ...