How the Spine Works: Three Main Functions The spine is one of the most essential structures of the body, allowing us to stand, walk and keep ourselves upright. First and foremost, the spine provides your body with proper support. The support of the spine is essential to various bodily movem...
First, let's learn a little bit more about the nervous system. Your nervous system is made up of your brain, cranial nerves, spinal cord, spinal nerves, and other bodies, like ganglia and sensory receptors. Your nerves are what carry messages from your body to your spine, and your spine...
Once the ritual feels complete to you, you can thank the universe for lending you its divine energy, and then visualize your energy gently returning to within your heart space. It can be helpful to imagine any excess energy flowing down your spine and back into the ground, both nourishing a...
1. The Skeletal SystemYour bones are hard parts of your body. You bones make up your skeleton.The set of bones that goes down your back is your spine.Your skull is a large bone in your head. It protects your brain.In your chest are bones called ribs. Your rib cage protects some ...
This often occurs between vertebrae in the spine, where swelling discs can compress the nerves as they exit. Another common example is carpal tunnel syndrome, where repeated motions of the wrist (like from typing on computers) causes swelling in the bone tunnel (carpal bones) where the radial ...
Gabrielle Kassel (she/her) is a sex and wellness journalist who writes at the intersection of queerness, sexual health, and pleasure. In addition to Women’s Health, her work has appeared in publications such as Shape, Cosmopolitan, Well+Good, Health, Self, Men’s Health, Greatist, and ...
Heuristics are often invoked in the philosophical, psychological, and cognitive science liter- atures to describe or explain methodological techniques or "shortcut" mental operations that help in inference, decision-making, and problem-solving. Yet there has been surprisingly little philosophical work don...
Scientists haven't figured out exactly how all the gray matter in your brain works, but they do have an idea of which part lets you think. The cerebral cortex, which is the outermost part of your brain, is where thought and reasoning happen. These are your brain's higher functions -- ...
Once a wingsuit flyer has exited the aircraft and begins falling, his first step is to spread his arms and legs in order to fully open the suit's wings. The flyer then straightens his spine, pushes his shoulders forward and straightens both legs. Since his entire body serves as an airfoil...
The All-Clad stainless-steel cookware we got with our wedding works great, as does the Wirecutter-endorsed nonstick pan we bought to replace one that wasn’t induction compatible (determined by a magnet not sticking to its underside). But the griddle pan we bought to retire another induction...