Simon Singh

In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. These are relatively minor effects, but the frequency is very high, and this has to be weighed against the limited benefit offered by chiropractors.

British Author

John Cassavetes

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

American Actor

Rajeev Suri

In digital healthcare, we have introduced connected devices, including thermometers and blood pressure monitors that are connected through a common app. For instance, our weighing scales can measure your arterial stiffness and warn you.

Indian Businessman

Ivor Novello

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Welsh Musician

Garry Shandling

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

American Comedian

Denise Austin

Prolonged sitting can cause stiffness in your lower back.

American Author

Stiffness often describes textiles, metals, plastics, or other materials in regards to craftsmanship and industrial use.

Physical Materials

When relating to objects, 'stiffness' suggests something is strong but could break if forced to bend.

Not Bendable

Describing a person's attitude as 'stiffness' often negatively implies they are unapproachable or unfriendly.

Social Perception

Institutions or laws described with 'stiffness' are strict, with little flexibility for exceptions or leniency.

Authority's Firmness

In medicine, 'stiffness' usually relates to discomfort from conditions such as arthritis or muscular issues.

Medical Context

After physical activity, people often feel 'stiffness', a natural physical response to intense or new exercise.

Post-Exercise Feeling

What one culture views as 'stiffness' in behavior, another may view as respect or politeness.

Cultural Differences

At formal events or occasions, a certain level of 'stiffness' in behavior might be expected or appropriate.

Behavior in Formal Events

 calls so it's quite late in the afternoon so probably nothing will be done about that elephant at the moment as you can see that that wind doesn't seem to be hampering his movement and whatnot too long or too much but the problem is it's not now while the winds fresh it's once the stiffness sets in

Safari Live - Day 125 PIPE...

 all day and yet snow stiffness in that walk at all it's absolutely phenomenal I don't understand how these animals deal with it I could say if that was a human you would be man down woman down you would be in serious pain and not very happy about life at all so it's pretty

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 became seriously ill. They had muscle weakness, stiffness in the neck and back, fevers -- all of the same symptoms I had when I first got diagnosed. Doctors thought it was a new form of polio. Since then, there have been more than 70 outbreaks documented around the world,

What happens when you...

 it displaces the foundation and lower levels, sending shock waves through the rest of the structure and causing it to vibrate back and forth. The strength of this oscillation depends on two main the building's mass, which is concentrated at the bottom, and its stiffness,

Why do buildings fall in...

 It's an observation with obvious medical applications in humans as well, but it's also relevant in a broad sense, I think, to the design of prosthetics, soft robots, basically anything where changes of shape and stiffness are important. So to sum Twenty years ago,

What we didn't know...

 As the enzymes eat away at cartilage, the body attempts to stabilize smaller joints by fusing them together. This process sometimes leads to outgrowths called bone spurs, which also cause intense stiffness and joint pain. With so many factors causing arthritis,

Why haven’t we cured...

 the relative leg stiffness of that spring is the same for everything we've seen so far. Now, what good are springy legs then? What can they do? Well, we wanted to see if they allowed the animals to have greater stability and maneuverability.

Robert Full: Engineering...

 Many years later, my mom developed frozen shoulder, which leads to pain and stiffness in the shoulder. The person I believed for half of my life to have superpowers suddenly needed help to get dressed or to cut food.

Cosmin Mihaiu: Physical...

 by microscopic and macroscopic movements at the stage. And by having this, not only will you be able to feel how big the object is, the roundness and the lines, but also the stiffness and the texture.

Origami robots that...

 when you need it, for optimal support and flexibility, without ever causing discomfort. My bionic limbs are attached to my biological body via synthetic skins with stiffness variations,