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Question 1

Describe the PNF approach

Answer 1

The procedures are used to increase patient mobility or stability, guide the patient’s movement, facilitate more efficient and coordinated movement through normal timing, and increase range of motion (ROM), strength, and endurance

Question 2

What does the term irradiation refer to within PNF?

Answer 2

responsive to resistance spreads to another adjacent and agonist muscle

Question 3

resistance

Answer 3

increased effort from the muscle group being targeted

Question 4

stretch

Answer 4

muscle spindles are facilitated causing a contraction of the agonist muscle

Question 5

successive induction

Answer 5

resistance in one direction will strengthen the opposite directions

Question 6

reciprocal inhibition

Answer 6

agonist muscle contracts and antagonist muscle relaxes