Contractures Quotes & Sayings

What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life. — John R.W. Stott

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity. — Byron Katie

This study began in an exact and precise manner only with the labours of Professor Charcot at the Salpetriere, on the traumatic accidents of the hystericals: the paralyses, the contractures, mutisms, or anorexias. Everywhere, as we have seen, he showed the importance of the fixed idea which produced and kept up the accident, the reproduction of identical facts by suggestion, the treatment by isolation, and the moral influences which modified not the physical state, but the mental pathological state of the hysterical. It remained to generalise somewhat more this conception — Anonymous

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing ... You decide ... For yourselves!!! — Eiichiro Oda

I wondered if he'd appreciate my help: maybe if I attacked her with a pool chair and beat her into putty, she'd be distracted enough to leave him alone. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles. — Shane Eric Mathias

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me. — Neal Stephenson

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this
that we manufacture everything there except men. — John Ruskin

Sometimes things seem too good to be true. — Keke Palmer

Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time. — Sena Jeter Naslund

He slept until noon on Christmas Day, until Josh came in and sprayed him with one their mom's salon water bottles. — Rainbow Rowell

When a trigger point is present, numerous sarcomeres are contracted into a small, thickened area and the rest of the sarcomeres in the myofibril are stretched thin. Several of these contractures in the same area are probably what we feel as a "knot" or "tight band" in the muscle. These muscle fibers are not available for use because they are already contracted, which is why you cannot condition (strengthen) a muscle that contains trigger points. — Valerie Delaune