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  2. A flexibility expert shares his four top stretches for ... - AOL

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    Puppy dog pose - 2 minutes. Saddle stretch - 2 minutes ... If this feels too intense, move your knee further away from the wall. ... Case in point: tight hips can translate to lower back pain ...

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    Lie flat on your back with your knees bent. Slowly lift one leg (with the knee bent) toward your chest. Be gentle with lifting the knee toward your chest, only going as high as feels comfortable.

  4. Downward Dog Pose - Wikipedia

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    It stretches the hamstring and calf muscles in the backs of the legs and builds strength in the shoulders. [ 28 ] The pose has sometimes been advised against during pregnancy in popular sources, [ a ] but that advice has been contested by a 2015 study which found no ill-effects on healthy women between 35 and 37 weeks pregnant from any of the ...

  5. Canine gait - Wikipedia

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    The double suspension gallop is a leaping gait, with the hind legs first propelling the dog into the air and then followed by the front legs propelling. The shoulder muscles, the ham muscles and the back muscles are the engines of this motion. [2] Although speed is gained by animals using this gait, endurance will be sacrificed.

  6. Polyneuropathy in dogs and cats - Wikipedia

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    One rear leg will flex while standing. Over the next few months, it will begin to affect the other rear leg. Eventually, the dog is alternatively flexing and extending each rear leg in a dancing motion. Dancing Doberman disease progresses over a few years to rear leg weakness and muscle atrophy. No treatment is known, but most dogs retain the ...

  7. Dog anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Sixty percent of the dog's body mass falls on the front legs. [14] The dog has a cardiovascular system. The dog's muscles provide the dog with the ability to jump and leap. Their legs can propel them to leap forward rapidly to chase and overcome prey. They have small, tight feet and walk on their toes (thus having a digitigrade stance and ...

  8. Hyperextension (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    A Roman chair helps to stabilize the legs up until the hip joints while performing low back extension. The torso from above the hip joints is flexed forwards and down towards the floor. The exercise is completed by contracting the back ( erector spinae muscles) and raising the torso so the body is in a straight line from head to heels.

  9. Patellar reflex - Wikipedia

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    Striking of the patellar tendon with a reflex hammer just below the patella stretches the muscle spindle in the quadriceps muscle. [2] [3] This produces a signal which travels back to the spinal cord and synapses (without interneurons) at the level of L3 or L4 in the spinal cord, completely independent of higher centres. [4]

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