what is thixotropic stiffening?
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(Redirected from Thixotropic)\nJump to: navigation, search\nThixotropy is the property of some non-newtonian pseudoplastic fluids to show a time-dependent change in viscosity; the longer the fluid undergoes shear, the lower its viscosity. However, this is not a universal definition; the term is sometimes applied to pseudoplastic fluids without a viscosity/time component.\n\nMany gels and colloids are thixotropic materials, exhibiting a stable form at rest but becoming fluid when agitated. Some clays are also thixotropic, with their behavior of great importance to structural engineering in earthquake zones. Clayey ground can practically liquefy under the shaking of a tremor, greatly increasing the effect on buildings. Ketchup is frequently thixotropic. Many clutch-type automatic transmissions use fluids with thixotropic properties to engage the different clutch plates inside the transmission housing at specific pressures which then changes the gearset.\n\nFluids which exhibit the opposite property, in which shaking for a time causes solidification, are called rheopectic and are much less common.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thixotropic
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Increase in peripheral resistance...
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So WHAT exactly got stiff?  Did your BACK get stiff?  Did your KNEE get stiff.  Dontcha just hate it when that happens!  You are a moron... moron's don't deserve REAL answers.
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Cyropracters are good for straightnening boies. You have to first access the cause of why your neck is bent? It normally works like a chain, so it could be your hamstrings, pulling your back, pulling your shoulders pulling your neck. General streching of the thights, bum, back, shouloders and neck should loosen everything up. Dont bounce when you strech though. Heidi
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a) stretching - the objects "necks" or thins down\n\nb) compression - the objects "bellows" or gets fatter
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Stretching- streching is important to have a good flexibility, try streching programs like yoga \n\nexercise- exercise lets your muscle breath oxygen, which in turn help the streching cuz the muscles will work efficientsly!\n\nget out- don't crawl on the desk and watch tv and computer all day, it will make your muscles stiff and small, and again the best solution is to exercise,A LOT!
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Wow, that first answer is thorough, but the simple answer is that the skin contains an springy protein called elastin which lets it return to its shape when deformed.  Elastin is also found in many other tissues, including blood vessels, this allows the the aorta to expand when blood is pumped into it and then contract as the blood moves out.
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When a body is deformed,certain forces are developed in the body by which it tries to restore its undeformed shape or size.These forces constitute the elastic restoring force.\nElastic restoring force is always equal in magnitude and oposite in direction to the applied deforming force.
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Specific gravity and molecular adherence
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Lusitropic: refers to any agent that affects the rate of relaxation
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elasticity, and pulling on the tissue:P   \n\nElasticity has a meaning of:\n\nIn physics and mechanical engineering, the theory of elasticity describes how a solid object moves and deforms in response to external stress. An alternative meaning of elasticity is a property of an object: it undergoes elastic (as opposed to plastic) deformation in response to stress.
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Like a stretched spring.  Refer link for image.
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He may be referring to having an "Adjustment"...he'll need to see a qualified Chiropractor for this. Please tell him that he shouldn't have buddies try to do this for him - that can be very dangerous!
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Hardening of body tissue.
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good stretching, some ibuprofen, hot pads and/or ice.....GNC also sells a pill called TRIFLEX, it contains glucosamine and chondroiton, which are said to help "lubricate" joints.....my knees are pretty bad also, I find that it helps out enough to where i keep buying it.
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"Thickening of the walls is related to hypertension.  Systole occurs when the left ventricle of the heart is pumping the blood through the body.  Think of a water hose, when more force is applied by the water pump, more pressure is applied against the inner walls of the hose.  This is the same with the heart and arteries.  arteries are surrounded with muscles that contract and expand the artery to help maintain enough pressure to feed a sufficient quantity of blood to all of the cells of the body.\n\nJust like any muscle these muscles around the arteries get larger with increased use and increased resistance.  When these arteries thicken because of this muscle growth the inside area of the artery becomes smaller providing less of an area for the volume of blood.  this restricts the flow of blood and makes the heart beat harder and faster to deliver the required amount of oxygen containing blood to the cells.  This decrease in flow area also then allows plaque, and clotting blood to stick to the side of the artery further narrowing the flow and finally depriving blood to an area where it is needed, like the heart, and results in death of the cells of a particular organ, such as the heart.  Thus causing a "heart attack".\n\nsystole is the term used for describing the pressure against the artery wall when the heart is contracting.
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It has been incorrectly attributed to synovial fluid moving suddenly (popping) from one side of the synovial fluid cavity to the other when the one side is under pressure.\n\nIt is ACTUALLY the sudden stretching and 'relaxing' of your tendons over your joints as you put the tendons under tension when snapping your fingers.