Pain is also associated with tight and / or shortened muscle, abnormal posture, stiff joints, unsuitable orthosis etc.

If this is unsuccessful, treatment using a cranial remolding orthosis ( baby helmet ) can help to correct abnormal head shapes. Example of Cranial Remolding Band These helmets are used to treat deformational plagiocephaly, brachycephaly, scaphocephaly and other head shape deformities in infants 3 – 18 months of age.

This orthosis is implanted to support the femur after a hip fracture | fracture, but the concentration of stress at its bend increases the possibility that it may break under force.

The term " stress raiser " is used in orthopedics ; a focus point of stress on an implanted orthosis is very likely to be its point of failure.

Over several weeks, slightly more material is added to the orthosis to raise the arch.

Most hip fractures are treated by orthopedic surgery, which involves implanting an orthosis.

Physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotic intervention ( e. g., ankle-foot orthosis ), speech therapy and orthopedic instruments ( e. g., wheelchairs and standing frames ) may be helpful.

Although the initial aim of humanoid research was to build better orthosis and prosthesis for human beings, knowledge has been transferred between both disciplines.

A few examples are: powered leg prosthesis for neuromuscularly impaired, ankle-foot orthosis, biological realistic leg prosthesis and forearm prosthesis.

Treatment modalities such as orthosis / splints, soft braces and education are some of the common treatment tool that an occupational therapist will use during treatment.

A cranial remolding orthosis ( helmet ) provides painless total contact over the prominent areas of the skull and leaves voids over the flattened areas to provide a pathway for more symmetrical skull growth.

Another method involves simultaneously " muffling " the action of the alien hand and limiting the sensory feedback coming back to the hand from environmental contact by placing it in a restrictive " cloak " such as a specialized soft foam hand orthosis or, alternatively, an everyday oven mitt.

When the initial post-fracture edema or swelling goes down, the fracture may be placed in a removable brace or orthosis.

Battery powered FDA approved electrical neuromuscular stimulators have been used in these research projects connected by wires to the pair of right wrist electrodes embedded in a custom made plastic orthosis to localize the stimulation target.

Over-the-counter orthosis help with excessive foot pronation, and mal-alignments may benefit from custom orthotics.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The abacus ( plural abaci or abacuses ), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes.

The preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement, with both abacuses and abaci in use.

Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

Arthritis ( from Greek arthro -, joint +-itis, inflammation ; plural: arthritides ) is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

The Western suffix-e is from the Classical singular and the Eastern suffix-its is from the Classical plural ; both have been generalized for singular and plural in the dialects that use them.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

The currency of the country is the lev ( plural leva ), pegged to the euro at a rate of 1. 95583 leva for 1 euro.

The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).

The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.

The camera obscura ( Latin ; camera for " vaulted chamber / room ", obscura for " dark ", together " darkened chamber / room "; plural: camera obscuras or camerae obscurae ) is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen.

A prosthesis ( plural prostheses ) is a device that substitutes for a missing part of a limb.

A deus ex machina ( or ; Latin: " god from the machine "; plural: dei ex machina ) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.

The method of loci ( plural of Latin locus for place or location ), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman rhetorical treatises ( in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ).

An abat-son ( usually plural abat-sons ) is an architectural device constructed to reflect sound in a particular direction.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

It was superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on eternal marriage and teaches the doctrine of plural marriage.

A die ( plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum " something which is given or played ") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.

The Druze (, plural دروز, durūz, druzim ) are a monotheistic religious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, which emerged during the 11th century from Ismailism school of Shia Islam.

Another type of epic poetry is epyllion ( plural: epyllia ), which is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

Direct objects take an accusative case suffix-n, which goes after any plural suffix.

Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic origin, from fuyū ( the plural of fay, which literally means " the returned ", and was used especially for ' land that has been conquered from enemies that did not fight ').

It is possible, Samarrai says, that French scribes, writing in Latin, attempted to transliterate the Arabic word fuyū ( the plural of fay ), which was being used by the Muslim invaders and occupiers at the time, resulting in a plurality of forms-feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others-from which eventually feudum derived.

In Ghent and other regions of East-Flanders, bakeries sell a donut-shaped bun called a " mastel " ( plural " mastellen "), which is basically a bagel.

Ancient Romans originally applied orca ( plural orcae ) to these animals, possibly borrowing it from the Greek, which referred ( among other things ) to a whale species.

The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.

In mathematics, a lemma ( plural lemmata or lemmas ) from the Greek λῆμμα ( lemma, “ anything which is received, such as a gift, profit, or a bribe ”) is a proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result rather than as a statement of interest by itself.

Like Karl Marx, Lenin distinguished between the aspects of a revolution, the " economic campaign " ( labour strikes for increased wages and work concessions ), which featured diffused plural leadership ; and the " political campaign " ( socialist changes to society ), which required the decisive revolutionary leadership of the Bolshevik vanguard party.

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,