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  2. Hypnic jerk - Wikipedia

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    A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.

  3. What Muscles Are Used in Jumping Jacks? Trainers Break It Down

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    "The deltoids are located at the top of the arm and cover the shoulder joint," Julom explains. "When doing jumping jacks, the arms move up and down, engaging the deltoids and building strength and ...

  4. Rebound exercise - Wikipedia

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    A pair of jumpers A mini-trampoline.. Rebound exercise (or “rebounding”) is a type of elastically leveraged low-impact exercise usually performed on a device known as a rebounder—sometimes called a "mini-trampoline" or "fitness trampoline"—which is directly descended from regular sports or athletic trampolines.

  5. Kohnstamm's phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The arm will involuntarily rise. Russian scientists Victor Gurfinkel, Mikhail Lebedev and Yuri Levick used Kohnstamm's phenomenon to activate tonogenic structures in humans and thereby demonstrate postural automatisms, such as neck reflexes.

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  7. Why Scaling Back On Your Workouts Is The Key To Bigger ... - AOL

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    Don’t just jump back into your regular programming willy-nilly after a rest period—you’ll want to gradually ramp your volume and workouts back up so your body doesn’t take on too much ...

  8. Camptocormia - Wikipedia

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    A clinical photograph showing a patient with the flexed posture. It can be abated when lying down. [1]Camptocormia, also known as bent spine syndrome (BSS), is a symptom of a multitude of diseases that is most commonly seen in the elderly.

  9. Lying (position) - Wikipedia

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    Betty Bryant lying down and reading letters Painting of a lying woman. Lying – also called recumbency, prostration, or decubitus in medicine (from Latin decumbo 'to lie down') – is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath.