How to Use neuromuscular in a Sentence

neuromuscular

adjective
  • The neuromuscular disease has robbed him of the ability to speak, to walk, to feed himself or to breathe on his own.
    New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • In this rare disorder, the body’s immune system attacks what’s called the neuromuscular junction, the point where the nerves connect to the muscles to tell them what to do.
    New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Millet and his colleagues put the runners through a series of neuromuscular strength tests before and after the races.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 June 2021
  • To create the device, the researchers had to figure out the locations on the face that had the most reliable neuromuscular signals.
    Thuy Ong, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Bryan, who has a neuromuscular disorder, uses a wheelchair and a walker to help him get around.
    Mike Householder, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Born at just 26 weeks, and with neuromuscular challenges, Buster had to wear clunky, plastic braces that often scared other children.
    Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2021
  • Correctly done, the neuromuscular coordination, or the way the brain controls the muscles, is enhanced by the A-Skip.
    Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The technology involves a system of sensors that detect the minuscule neuromuscular signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords and muscles of the throat and tongue.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • For more than four years, Bonsall has battled the slow onset of a neuromuscular disorder.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The iron lung helped people like O’Brien, an artist and writer, breathe after their neuromuscular systems had succumbed to polio.
    David Guston, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Simanksi told her students about her 20-year-old daughter, Olivia, who has a neuromuscular condition and requires 24-hour care.
    Sarah Smith, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Called AlterEgo, the system detects neuromuscular signals in the jaw and face that stem from internal verbalizations, the brain's thought process.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Gone, even, are the crease-faced baseball lifers whose choices are informed by decades of neuromuscular memory.
    Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The neuromuscular connection that had formed the night before wasn’t going anywhere.
    Rachel Mabe, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The Alliance says athletes can prevent or reduce the risk for ACL tears and other traumatic injuries by as much as 80% with neuromuscular training.
    Laura Landro, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Christy Judd's 8-year-old son, Ethan, has a congenital neuromuscular disease and needs a ventilator to breathe at night.
    chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2017
  • Christy Judd’s 8-year-old son, Ethan, has a congenital neuromuscular disease and needs a ventilator to breathe at night.
    Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News, 10 July 2017
  • While adult runners, who are pressed for time, may only be able to do leg swings prior to a hard workout, a sound warm-up for a high school athlete should include both mobility work and neuromuscular work.
    Jay Johnson, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2021
  • As a child in Alabama, his mom said, he was diagnosed him with a neuromuscular condition.
    Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Medicare will cover a lift chair if a person has severe arthritis of the hip or knee or a severe neuromuscular disease and a doctor has made use of a seat lift mechanism part of their treatment plan.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Wong, 47, moves and breathes with the aid of a power wheelchair and a ventilator because of a genetic neuromuscular condition.
    Rachel Scheier, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The mid-range progression run helps prevent long runs from becoming tight, monotonous shuffles in which the stride length gets too short and neuromuscular timing goes flat.
    Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Balance refers to the neuromuscular skill of activating the muscles and adjusting your body alignment to keep yourself upright.
    Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2013
  • Bedridden and silenced by a lethal neuromuscular disease, Eric Valor, 48, is kept alive by science.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Very droopy eyelids may be a sign of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in skeletal muscles (the muscles the body uses for movement).
    Claire Gillespie, SELF, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The German soccer federation said Sunday that Kroos is out with a left thigh injury and Hector withdrew with a neuromuscular injury.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The cause was complications from a neuromuscular disease, said a wife, Nancy Gussman.
    Staff Reports, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Duchenne is a rare fatal neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in a progressive loss of muscle function and weakness, including in the heart and skeleton.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The show is intended to amplifying awareness of spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare progressive neuromuscular disease.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Over the next two days, Michelle and I engaged in an array of individual treatments and group sessions: tension-relieving neuromuscular massages, invigorating sunrise yoga, mind-bending tarot card and palm reading.
    Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2024

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