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  • I obviously can't grab a dumbbell with that side, but I'm doing single-arm bench presses.

    LaRon Landry had surgery to repair dislocated wrist Mike Jones 2011

  • Dr. Popma made it clear that this isn't a stand-alone, single-arm study, but rather one segment of a larger, randomized trial.

    Medtronic Alters Study for New Heart Valves Jon Kamp 2011

  • The FDA encourages companies to conduct multiple single-arm studies in lieu of randomization, but this is only done for the most promising drugs that can justify the investment in trials that cost tens of millions of dollars apiece.

    The FDA and Slower Cures 2011

  • FDA medical reviewers said the small size of the studies involving Adcetris and their single-arm design—meaning there was no placebo comparison among participants—limits the benefit-risk analysis, but noted that similar types of studies have supported accelerated approval of other blood-cancer drug applications.

    FDA Panel Backs Lymphoma Drug Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

  • If a senator wants to put a "hold" on a presidential nominee, he or she must literally put that person in a hold -- the single-arm choke, the sleeper hold, the Tonga death grip, the rear naked choke, any hold will do.

    Read the Constitution? The new rules Congress really needs to adopt. Stephen Stromberg 2010

  • A sample workout might include reverse lunges while carrying a barbell, with jumps onto a high box between sets; and squats and jumps while holding a medicine ball, intermixed with single-arm dumbbell raises.

    When Your Gym Is a Glossy Rink Jen Murphy 2010

  • A sample workout might include reverse lunges while carrying a barbell, with jumps onto a high box between sets; and squats and jumps while holding a medicine ball, intermixed with single-arm dumbbell raises.

    When Your Gym Is a Glossy Rink Jen Murphy 2010

  • A sample workout might include reverse lunges while carrying a barbell, with jumps onto a high box between sets; and squats and jumps while holding a medicine ball, intermixed with single-arm dumbbell raises.

    When Your Gym Is a Glossy Rink Jen Murphy 2010

  • It changed daily but one sample routine was: 25 pull ups, 50 deadlifts – 50 push ups (sometimes on gymnastics rings), 50 jumps onto a 24-inch box, 50 tire drags (dragging a huge tire attached to your waist across the room and back), 50 single-arm clean-and-presses using a 36-pound kettle bell, and another 25 pull ups.

    Breakfast Links: Spartan Workout, Gore and the Road Less Travelled : #comments 2007

  • For the windscreen wiper, it was decided to adopt the proven single-arm pantograph design.

    Open Source Auto Oscar Murcielago Ben Barren 2006

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