If you're in a defensive crouch about the problem, you can't cure it.

Instinctively they both dropped to a defensive crouch to survey the area.

He dropped into a defensive crouch, the knife held defensively before him.

She dropped into a defensive crouch when someone stepped out in front of her.

You get into a little bit of a defensive crouch.

He dropped into a defensive crouch and circled behind a rock.

The business at hand dropped into a defensive crouch.

He dropped into a defensive crouch, and began a slow circling around the other man.

In a moment she was in a defensive crouch, ready to spring.

Then he fell into a defensive crouch, looking to see what damage he'd done.