How to Use hip joint in a Sentence
hip joint
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Her pelvis hasn’t formed properly due to the extra hip joint.
—Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
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Place the band in the fold of your hip joint, where the thigh bone meets the pelvis.
—Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
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The hip joint is one of the largest joints in the human body.
—SELF, 22 Feb. 2019
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Bend over at your hip joint and keep your back straight.
—Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 24 May 2021
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This means the hamstrings extend the hip joint as well as flex the knee joint.
—SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
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And at first glance, the hip joints appear more human than ape-like.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
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Insert a meat thermometer in the turkey thigh near the hip joint.
—Ana Calderone, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
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This helps to loosen up the hip flexors and hip joint, which will help with your running or walking stride.
—Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 4 June 2019
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The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
—Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
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The head of the femur (upper leg bone) sits in the acetabulum, a socket in the pelvic bone to create the hip joint.
—Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
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This exercise not only works the core, but the entire hip joint.
—Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
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The three muscles that make up the rear end—the gluteus minimus, medius and maximus—help move the hip joint and stabilize the pelvis.
—Jen Murphy, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
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Use both hands to guide the knee and foot to produce external rotation at the hip joint.
—Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
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Notably, the muscles extending the hip joint were 32% bigger in the elite athletes than in the sub-elite group.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
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Without a hip joint intact, Cannon can’t bear his full weight on his right leg.
—Mike Anthony, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
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Xaco Taco fills its hip joint to serve tortillas made from scratch with happy hour deals.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
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The labrum is a ring of cartilage that encircles the hip joint socket, helping protect the joint and hold it in place.
—Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2020
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Certainly, this can happen, but more often the hip joint breaks, which causes the fall.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2022
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Your glute medius and minimus help keep your hip joint strong and stable, explains Mansour.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Mar. 2018
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The Gluteus Maximus must be strong to extend and hyperextend the hip joint.
—Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 7 July 2020
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This position stretches out your glute muscles and opens up your hip joint.
—Dana Santas, CNN, 7 May 2021
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And a lot of time walking promotes density in parts of the hip joint that support standing upright.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
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By making your step rate match the natural swing time of your leg, your body doesn’t have to actively move the leg but just relaxes at the hip joint.
—Helen Czerski, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
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Just enough heft for cutting through the hip joint of a 10-pointer, but just enough maneuverability for the tight confines of a rib cage.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
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The posterior approach, the main hip replacement method for many years, involves accessing the hip joint through an incision in the back of the leg – near the top of the femur.
—Tj Gibson, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
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With abs and butt tight so the back doesn’t arch, keeping a straight line from knee to shoulder, lean forward to stretch the TFL, anterior hip joint, rectus femoris, and long quadriceps.
—Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2020
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These exercises target muscle groups that cross the hip joint.
—Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
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By the time it was diagnosed, Jackson’s cancer was in his hip bone, femur, the capsule around his hip joint and in his gluteus and quadricep muscles.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
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That occurs when the bone and socket in the hip joint don't fit properly together, hampering range of motion.
—Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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The basic issue with hip dysplasia is that the ball and socket of the hip joint stop fitting properly, causing the joint to deteriorate.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
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