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Having a strong glute max, glute med and glute minimus, and strong muscles surrounding your glutes helps support your lower back, promotes good posture, stabilizes your legs, and maintains the integrity of movement in your hip joint, says Mansour.
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The key insight behind the ankle exo—to change our natural gait as little as necessary—came after the team reviewed ultrasound imaging studies that revealed exactly how the ankle, knee, and hip joints work together to share the stress of walking.
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By making your step rate match the natural swing time of your leg, your body doesn’t have to actively move the leg but just relaxes at the hip joint.
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That occurs when the bone and socket in the hip joint don't fit properly together, hampering range of motion.
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The posterior approach, the main hip replacement method for many years, involves accessing the hip joint through an incision in the back of the leg – near the top of the femur.
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The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
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This means the hamstrings extend the hip joint as well as flex the knee joint.
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First Known Use of hip joint
1794
Medical Dictionary
hip joint
medical Definition of hip joint
: the ball-and-socket joint comprising the articulation between the femur and the hip bone
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