How to Use neuromuscular in a Sentence

neuromuscular

adjective
  • Doing so helps their body to learn the neuromuscular sequences required to run at that speed.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 July 2024
  • The neuromuscular disease has robbed him of the ability to speak, to walk, to feed himself or to breathe on his own.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • Here's what else to know about the neuromuscular disorder.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Millet and his colleagues put the runners through a series of neuromuscular strength tests before and after the races.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 June 2021
  • For more than four years, Bonsall has battled the slow onset of a neuromuscular disorder.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The neuromuscular connection that had formed the night before wasn’t going anywhere.
    — Rachel Mabe, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
  • And now — from running across the stage each night to being sidelined by a neuromuscular disorder that has stolen his mobility.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • And now — from running across the stage each night to being sidelined by a neuromuscular disorder that has stolen his mobility.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 10 July 2024
  • As a child in Alabama, his mom said, he was diagnosed him with a neuromuscular condition.
    — Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • To create the device, the researchers had to figure out the locations on the face that had the most reliable neuromuscular signals.
    — Thuy Ong, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In this rare disorder, the body’s immune system attacks what’s called the neuromuscular junction, the point where the nerves connect to the muscles to tell them what to do.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Born at just 26 weeks, and with neuromuscular challenges, Buster had to wear clunky, plastic braces that often scared other children.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2021
  • The iron lung helped people like O’Brien, an artist and writer, breathe after their neuromuscular systems had succumbed to polio.
    — David Guston, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The group includes adults who have aphasia, motor speech disorders or other speech and language problems caused by brain injury or neuromuscular diseases.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • The mid-range progression run helps prevent long runs from becoming tight, monotonous shuffles in which the stride length gets too short and neuromuscular timing goes flat.
    — Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Cerebral palsy is a disability that causes lots of neuromuscular tension, and as an actor tension will stop your emotions from flowing through you.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Balance refers to the neuromuscular skill of activating the muscles and adjusting your body alignment to keep yourself upright.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2013
  • No cause of death was given, though the Nashville native is said to have suffered from a rare progressive neuromuscular disease that confined her to a wheelchair.
    — Karu F Daniels, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • While adult runners, who are pressed for time, may only be able to do leg swings prior to a hard workout, a sound warm-up for a high school athlete should include both mobility work and neuromuscular work.
    — Jay Johnson, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The technology involves a system of sensors that detect the minuscule neuromuscular signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords and muscles of the throat and tongue.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Medicare will cover a lift chair if a person has severe arthritis of the hip or knee or a severe neuromuscular disease and a doctor has made use of a seat lift mechanism part of their treatment plan.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • With age also come changes in vision, neuromuscular response and proprioception, or spatial awareness of the body, all of which impact balance.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Simanksi told her students about her 20-year-old daughter, Olivia, who has a neuromuscular condition and requires 24-hour care.
    — Sarah Smith, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In his view, gymnastics requires a unique kind of neuromuscular connection because many of the movements defy the body’s natural instincts.
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The cause was complications from a neuromuscular disease, said a wife, Nancy Gussman.
    — Staff Reports, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Very droopy eyelids may be a sign of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in skeletal muscles (the muscles the body uses for movement).
    — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Work from my team has found that specific qualities of playing surfaces can lead to early neuromuscular fatigue and unexpected muscle cramps.
    — Michael Hales, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson's cause of death was related to a lengthy battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a neuromuscular disease.
    — Chris Sims, IndyStar, 17 Feb. 2026
  • People with kidney or heart disease, or certain neuromuscular conditions, should avoid it without consulting a doctor.
    — Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Christy Judd's 8-year-old son, Ethan, has a congenital neuromuscular disease and needs a ventilator to breathe at night.
    — chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2017

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