tendon
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“Whether it’s your bone, whether it’s your muscle, whether it’s your tendon, you have to challenge yourself every day with different things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He thought maybe a tendon could be grafted to a pitcher’s elbow as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Earlier, Jobe had grafted a tendon to a recovered polio patient’s ankle to provide stabilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
She had to undergo surgery after rupturing her Achilles tendon on her take-off leg and so, rather than competing in Paris ended up commentating for the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
They worked; so she had not sliced a tendon.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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While max-cushion shoes may feel great initially, repetition of these minute wobbly, twisting moments plus the extra mechanical load on muscles, tendons, joints and bones could lead to injury in the long term, critics say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The 24-year-old is still learning how to manage the anomaly, which allows her to continue running when one of the tendons is torn but may also make her more susceptible to breakdowns.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“If you’re training plyometrics, you’re training the explosivity of your tendons, and that’s bulletproofing whatever joint that tendon is attached to — the tendons in your foot or ankle or hip,” Altman says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
After games we use the blood flow restriction machine just to get blood flow to your tendons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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