Stiffness

Tom felt the stiffness in his joints as he stood up after sitting in the same position for a long time.

She stretched to relieve the stiffness in her back.

You need a parameter to capture the stiffness of the metal.

Have you recently felt any unexplained pain or stiffness in your neck?

One of the effects of progressive muscle diseases like cerebral palsy is muscle stiffness.

His stiffness hampered the conversation.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

After years when I met a friend inside the aircraft and could sense stiffness in the conversation, a whiff of mild slang was the ice breaker, followed by loads of campus nostalgia.

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.