Chapter 7 - Flexibility Training Concepts

Question 0

Extensibility

Answer 0

Capability to be elongated or stretched.

Question 1

Flexibility

Answer 1

The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allows the full range of motion of a joint.

Question 2

Dynamic range of motion

Answer 2

The combination of flexibility and the nervous system’s ability to control this range of motion efficiently.

Question 3

Neuromuscular efficiency

Answer 3

The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergistically to produce, reduce, and dynamically stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three planes of motion.

Question 4

Postural distortion patterns

Answer 4

Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances.

Question 5

Relative flexibility

Answer 5

The tendency of the body to seek the path of least resistance during functional movement patterns.

Question 6

Muscle imbalance

Answer 6

alteration of muscle length surrounding a joint.

Question 7

Reciprocal inhibition

Answer 7

the simultaneous contraction off one muscle and the relaxation of it’s antagonist to allow movement to take place.

Question 8

Altered reciprocal inhibition

Answer 8

The concept off muscle inhibition, caused by a tight agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.

Question 9

Synergistic dominance

Answer 9

The neuromuscular phenomenon that occurs when inappropriate muscles take over the function of a weak or inhibited prime mover.

Question 10

Arthrokinetic dysfunction

Answer 10

Altered forces at the joint that result in abnormal muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular communication a the joint.

Occurs when a joint is not working properly

Question 11

Mechanoreceptors include the …

Answer 11

muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs

Question 12

Muscle spindles …

Answer 12

change in muscle length causing the muscle fibers of the lengthened muscle to contract.

Question 13

Golgi tendon organs

Answer 13

• are sensitive to changes in muscular tension
• causes the muscle to relax, which prevents the muscle from being placed under excessive stress, which could result in injury.

Question 14

Autogenic inhibition

Answer 14

the process by which neural impulses tat sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles.

Question 15

Pattern overload

Answer 15

Consistently repeating the same pattern of motion, which may place abnormal stress on the body.

Question 16

Davis’s law

Answer 16

states that soft tissue models along the lines of stress.

Question 17

Integrated flexibility continuum

Answer 17

Corrective flexibility
  - Self-myofascial release
  - Static stretching
Active flexibility
  - Self-myofascial release
  - Active-isolated stretching
Functional flexibility
  - Self-myofascial release
  - Dynamic stretching

Question 18

Self-myofascial release (SMR)

Answer 18

stretching technique that focuses on the neural system and fascial system in the body

gentle pressure breaks up knots within the muscle and helps to release unwanted muscular tension

foam roller

Question 19

Static stretching

Answer 19

The process of passively taking a muscle to the point of tension and holding the stretch for a minimum of 30 seconds.

Question 20

Active-isolated stretch

Answer 20

the process of using agonists and synergists to dynamically move the joint into a range of motion.

Question 21

Dynamic stretch

Answer 21

The active extension of a muscle, using force production and momentum, to move the joint through the full available range of motion.