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2. Soloflex - Wikipedia

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   Over time, several additions to the machine were made, such as butterfly attachments and leg extensions. The newest product addition is the Soloflex Whole Body Vibration (WBV) Platform. Vibrating while you are lifting weights is thought to magnify the conditioning effects to help promote faster muscle growth.

3. Leg press - Wikipedia

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   Cable leg press machine. The leg press is a compound weight training exercise in which the individual pushes a weight or resistance away from them using their legs. The term leg press machine refers to the apparatus used to perform this exercise. [1] The leg press can be used to evaluate an athlete's overall lower body strength (from the ...

4. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   The Capua leg (replica) A wooden prosthetic leg from Shengjindian cemetery, circa 300 BCE, Turpan Museum. This is "the oldest functional leg prosthesis known to date". [ 27 ] Iron prosthetic hand believed to have been owned by Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562) "Illustration of mechanical hand", c. 1564 Artificial iron hand believed to date ...

5. Bench press - Wikipedia

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   The bench press or chest press is a weight training exercise where a person presses a weight upwards while lying horizontally on a weight training bench. The bench press is a compound movement, with the primary muscles involved being the pectoralis major, the anterior deltoids, and the triceps brachii. Other muscles located in the back, legs ...

6. Hoover's sign (leg paresis) - Wikipedia

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   Involuntary extension of the "normal" leg occurs when flexing the contralateral leg against resistance. To perform the test, the examiner should hold one hand under the heel of the "normal" limb and ask the patient to flex the contralateral hip against resistance (while the patient is supine), asking the patient to keep the weak leg straight while raising it.

7. Jiagun - Wikipedia

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   The near-equivalent word brodequin is an obsolete English name for a buskin or "a high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs" , and was recorded as a type of boot torture. The prolific author George Ryley Scott , who repeated the tean zu ghost word, describes brodequin torture, which was used in early modern Scotland and France: