Should i brace myself

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Such aids include surgical footwear, hip appliances, full length calipers and spinal braces. Consider the accounts that companies have to produce, mainly to satisfy the banks, which want belt and braces.

I have arranged for all prison clothing to be altered so that belts and braces are not required. See all examples of brace. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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Browse BPR. Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes. Image credits. Word of the Day goodwill. I brace myself for the rear reflection in the three-way mirror. I braced myself but nevertheless my head went forward-but no wounds, I tried to brace myself with my elbow, It's difficult to see brace myself in a sentence. I thanked her and braced myself for the " however " part. As many as ten-million children will have been infected with the virus by the end of the decade The holiday will have done him the world of good.

I feel queer n. I feel weird Depuis plusieurs ans, "Queer" n'est plus commun pour se sentir mal. Weird est beaucoup plus simple sans avoir deux sens. A plethora of lumbar belts, posture braces, knee pads and wrist wraps now carry claims of prevention on the Net, in ergonomic office equipment stores and on teleshopping channels. And software workers, desk-job holders, frequent travellers and golfers are the target audience. A small pilot study by the department of industrial engineering and management, Ming-Chi Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, had people perform data entry jobs for an hour while wearing or not wearing a new type of back belt.

The results suggest that it may be useful in seated tasks because of its maintenance of lumbar lordosis and erect trunk. Also Read Golf and back pain. You can avoid back pain. Making all the right moves.

Pain in the neck? It could be RSI. The Alexander Technique. In the early s, several companies in the US, from grocery store chains to kindergartens, braced their employees for tasks involving bending and lifting by investing in wide elastic belts fastened by Velcro.

The assumption: Additional support would protect them from back injuries. Niosh continued its studies till , though, and stuck to its guns. Through the s, the debate on braces focused mostly on non-white-collar jobs. Now, braces are back in the news as a preventive measure for sedentary white-collar employees read software workers and bankers.

Some companies appear to buy these claims. Recently, a US-based software giant reportedly ordered belts for its developers.