subluxation
IPA: sʌbɫʌksˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (pathology) A partial dislocation.
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Examples of "subluxation" in Sentences
- Common deformities such as hip subluxation, foot deformities and in-toeing may also be reduced.
- I would love for people to know the word subluxation and think of it as heart disease because it's just as damaging. "
- The hip muscles (hip adductors) also may need to be released to treat problems with walking or hip subluxation or both.
- If a chiropractor says that a subluxation is the cause of your problem, then you should be able to gauge the steady, systematic decline of a subluxation.
- A better running game should ease the burden Rodgers carried last season when he gutted out seven games with a painful subluxation of his throwing shoulder.
- "subluxation" for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or "health maintenance," they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable.
- Most chiropractors relinquished whatever ethical integrity they might have had when they bought into the "subluxation" myth, and the field as a whole has a fine tradition of "practice building."
- When they do "chiropractic adjustments" to correct a "subluxation" for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or "health maintenance," they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable.
- Labral tears typically are the result of some underlying traumatic event such as hip subluxation or dislocation in contact athletes, or due to underlying bony abnormalities in which a "out-of-round" femoral head ( "cam lesion") or over-covered socket ( "rim lesion") pinch and damage the labrum when the hip is certain positions during athletic activities.
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