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These benefits include reducing blood pressure and vascular stiffness, improving the activation of neurons in the brain, reducing inflammation in the brain, lowering resting norepinephrine, and improving sleep.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

His lawsuit alleged that this impacted upon a ski holiday, as well as his exercise regime as "attempts at strenuous athletic activity would cause significant exacerbations of pain and stiffness".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

In more severe cases, symptoms include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, vision loss, paralysis and coma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In setting out Jonathan’s defense, one of the filing’s most striking assertions is that Isak suffered from bilateral gonarthrosis in both knees, a degenerative joint condition that causes cartilage wear, pain, stiffness and reduced mobility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Then he removed the fetters around Asha’s ankles, rubbing the stiffness from her calves.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Increasingly it was more difficult to fight the aches and stiffnesses which tried to keep her in bed in the morning—not that they ever succeeded.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here,—yes, here!

From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith

And I felt very sorry for Carette, and did not wonder so much now at the little stiffnesses of manner I had noticed in her the last time we met.

From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham

And the muslins and blue ribbons will be wonderful filmy creations, as different from the Early Victorian stiffnesses as anything you can possibly imagine.

From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout

The youthful works of genius are generally the best, their very crudities and stiffnesses adorable.

From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson