When asked to turn left or right, or to raise a left or right limb, many affected with right-sided hemiparesis will either turn / raise limb / etc.

At the more advanced level, using constraint-induced movement therapy will encourage overall function and use of the affected limb.

He states in his work, Gynecology, that “ a suitable person will be literate, with her wits about her, possessed of a good memory, loving work, respectable and generally not unduly handicapped as regards her senses sight, smell, hearing, sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips .” Soranus also recommends that the midwife be of sympathetic disposition ( although she need not have borne a child herself ) and that she keep her hands soft for the comfort of both mother and child.

Another use of the principle of similarity is the construction and manipulation of representations of some target to be affected ( e. g. voodoo dolls ), believed to bring about a corresponding effect on the target ( e. g. breaking a limb of a doll will bring about an injury in the corresponding limb of someone depicted by the doll ).

Movement of this reflected normal limb is then performed so that it looks to the patient as though they are performing movement with the affected limb ( although it will be pain free due to the fact it is a normal limb being reflected ).

Nonetheless, there are reports that on average cite about half of the patients will have resolution of their pain, while half will develop phantom limb pain and / or pain at the amputation site.

Sunscreen should be applied to all areas of the skin that will be exposed to sunlight, and at least a tablespoon ( 25ml ) should be applied to each limb, the face, chest, and back, to ensure thorough coverage.

Patients who are seriously ill but not in immediate danger of life or limb will be triaged to " acute care " or " majors ," where they will be seen by a physician and receive a more thorough assessment and treatment.

For instance, a wetsuit with a torso thickness of 5 mm and a limb thickness of 3 mm will be described as a " 5 / 3 ".

Sufferers of alien hand will often personify the rogue limb, for example believing it to be " possessed " by some intelligent or alien spirit or an entity that they may name or identify.

Furthermore, increased reabsorption of fluid into the medulla will increase passive reabsorption of sodium along the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle.

Since the Moon, with an angular speed with respect to the stars of 0. 55 arcsec / s or 2. 7 µrad / s, has no atmosphere and stars have an angular diameter of at most 0. 057 arcseconds or 0. 28 µrad, a star that is occulted by the moon will disappear or reappear in 0. 1 seconds or less on the moon's edge, or limb.

Some sufferers have reported to the media or by interview over the telephone with researchers that they have resorted to self-amputation of a " superfluous " limb, for example by allowing a train to run over it, or by damaging the limb so badly that surgeons will have to amputate it.

Panantukan focuses on countering an opponent's strike with a technique that will nullify further attack by hitting certain nerve points, bones, and muscle tissue to cause immediate partial paralysis of the attacking limb.

A recurve will permit a shorter bow than the simple straight limb bow for a given arrow energy and this form was often preferred by archers in environments where long weapons could be cumbersome, such as in brush and forest terrain, or while on horseback.

" The peers then proceed to pay their homage, saying " I, N., Duke Earl, Viscount, Baron or Lord of N., do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship ; and faith and truth will I bear unto you, to live and die, against all manner of folks.

Young or traveling squirrels will also " sleep rough " when weather permits, balanced spread-eagled on a tree limb high above the forest floor.

His Mary would be slender of limb and delicate of proportion, yet she must hold this full-grown man as securely and convincingly as she would a child.

Their vertebral columns, limbs, limb girdles and musculature needed to be strong enough to raise them off the ground for locomotion and feeding.

Up to the time of the revolution the promise was, " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom.

Training likely needs to be intense and focused — as indicated by one study performed with stroke patients experiencing limb ataxia who underwent intensive upper limb retraining.

Warm compresses and elevation of the limb may be beneficial for a skin abscess.

In some cases, that individual may take drastic measures to remove the offending appendages, either by causing irreparable damage to the limb so that medical intervention cannot save the limb, or by causing the limb to be severed.

* Severe limb injuries in which the limb cannot be spared or attempts to spare the limb have failed

This limb stiffness makes the compound bow more energy efficient than other bows, but the limbs are too stiff to be drawn comfortably with a string attached directly to them.

: or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.

Solar prominence s can be seen along the limb ( in red ) as well as extensive corona l filaments.

Other forms of muscular dystrophy ( e. g. limb girdle ) must be considered as well.

* Limb of a living animal ( ever min ha-chai ): according to Genesis 9: 4, a limb torn from an animal that is still alive may not be consumed ; this law is considered applicable even to non-Jews

The backbone stretches away out of frame ; no hind limb bones can be seen.

Soon much of Louis's army had evaporated before his eyes, and he ordered his few remaining followers to go, because " it would be a pity if any man lost his life or limb on my account.

The muscles that control breathing and neck and limb movements can also be affected.

Such instruments were finely threaded and variously provided with spiked inner surfaces or heated red-hot before their application to the limb to be tortured.

Local anesthetic injections into the nerves or sensitive areas of the stump may relieve pain for days, weeks or, sometimes permanently, despite the drug wearing off in a matter of hours ; and small injections of hypertonic saline into the soft tissue between vertebrae produces local pain that radiates into the phantom limb for ten minutes or so and may be followed by hours, weeks or even longer of partial or total relief from phantom pain.

Constraint-induced movement therapy is based on the idea that a person with an impairment ( physical or communicative ) develops a " learned nonuse " by compensating for the lost function with other means such as using an unaffected limb by a paralyzed individual or drawing by a patient with aphasia.

If the accused party is found guilty, the victim ( or in death, victim's family ) determines the punishment, choosing either retribution ( qisas-e-nafs ), which means execution in the case of intentional murder, and in cases of intentional battery, the amputation of the limb that was lost ; or they can choose to forgive the perpetrator.

It is unclear whether the biramous condition is a derived state which evolved in crustaceans, or whether the second branch of the limb has been lost in all other groups.

On the other hand, carelessness and neglect were severely punished, as in the case of the unskillful physician, if it led to loss of life or limb, his hands were cut off ; a slave had to be replaced, the loss of his eye paid for by half his value ; a veterinary surgeon who caused the death of an ox or donkey paid quarter value ; a builder whose careless workmanship caused death lost his life or paid for it by the death of his child, replaced slave or goods and in any case, had to rebuild the house or make good any damages due to defective building and repair the defect as well.

Sticklebacks exist in both marine and freshwater environments, but sticklebacks in many freshwater populations have completely lost their pelvic fins ( appendages homologous to the posterior limb of tetrapods ).

In passing through the ascending limb, the filtrate grows hypotonic since it has lost much of its sodium content.

When circulation is severed in a limb, the response to touch and tickle are lost prior to the loss of pain sensation.

Vanier was born and educated in Quebec and, after earning a university degree in law, served in the Canadian army during the First World War ; on the European battlefields he lost a limb, but was commended for his actions with a number of decorations from the King.

* Injuries after cell division that cannot be biologically repaired, such as a lost limb from an accident.

The specific dermatomes affected can be demonstrated clinically, and although lower limb deep tendon reflexes and plantar reflex are lost, abdominal reflexes are preserved.

military personnel who lost their eyesight or a limb while on active

In the later 17th century the cuirassier lost his limb armour and subsequently employed only the cuirass ( breastplate and backplate ), and sometimes a helmet.

The cuirassier lost his limb armour and entered the 18th century with just the breast and backplate.

Each time he lost a limb, Nick Chopper replaced it with a prosthetic limb made of tin.

Within a year and fitted with a prosthetic limb, Jordan lost his footing and fell 2, 000 feet to his death when filming similar aerial imagery used in Catch-22.

Those who are not whole in body ( i. e. missing a limb or other body part ) are ineligible to claim the throne, which is why Tewfik ibn ' Jamal cannot become Settler: he lost an eye in the Zanj campaigns.

For instance, Graham Hoilie, who vows to kill the Great White Galactic Whale, is likened to Captain Ahab, especially since both had lost a limb due to the creature they were pursuing ( Ahab lost a leg, whereas Graham lost an arm ).

For example, a limb may be lost to amputation in case of untreatable gangrene, but the patient's life is saved.

Each of the ARMS is a weapon made of thousands of nanomachines and minerals that have the capability to merge with a biological being, and are capable of mimicking a lost limb ( as is the case with Kei, Takeshi, Hayato, and Ryo ).

Harvesting is accomplished by removing one or both claws from the live animal and returning it to the ocean where it can regrow the lost limb ( s ).