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  • n  a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint

  • Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in .
  • Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base.
  • Stipulation: the horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or .
News & Articles

  • Prospects Bundy, Schoop progressing in recoveries
    A pair of the Orioles' top prospects are making strides in their recovery processes. Dylan Bundy (right flexor mass tightness) will make the next step in his throwing progression Monday. Top position player prospect Jonathan Schoop (lower back stress fracture) took the next step in his recovery. He's jogging in a pool and throwing.
    June 16, 2013 - Major League Baseball
Quotes

  • Manny Delcarmen in Rotoworld.com
    In 2004, when I tore the flexor tendon in my pitching arm, I again used HGH two times in one day out of frustration and in a futile attempt to recover. Unfortunately, I needed surgery on the arm later in the year. I regret these lapses in... Andy Pettitte http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Pettitte&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHRDlEGCgLC-xDlET2FMGYShiKziw ESPN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story%3Fid%3D3243667&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG53StKdNUtOLg_b2tY2oov4THv0w Feb 13, 2008 38187 49415 flexor I think it's my pronator or flexor mass or something in my forearm," said Delcarmen. "It's been for like a week. It's been getting better every day, just having a little trouble getting extension on the ball. I'm going to see how the day off...
  • Alex Rodriguez in New York Post
    I don't know if it's a hip flexor,he said. "It was in my groin. I feel it really deep. [Team physician Christopher] Ahmad pulled up my pictures, and the pictures of my hip came out as good as ever. Dr. [Marc] Philippon [who performed the...

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