Chapter 7-Flexibility Training Concepts

Question 1

The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow full range of motion of a joint

Answer 1

Flexibility

Question 2

What is developed when clients demonstrate poor flexibility?

Answer 2

Relative flexibility

Question 3

The body’s ability to produce, reduce, and stabilizes forces in all three planes of motion

Answer 3

Neuromuscular efficiency

Question 4

What are 8 reasons for the incorporation of flexibility training?

Answer 4

Correct muscle imbalances; increase joint range of motion; decrease tension of muscles; relieve joint stress; improve extensibility; maintain normal functional length of muscles; improve optimum neuromuscular efficiency; improve function

Question 5

What is the repair process initiated by dysfunction within the connective tissue of the kinetic chain that is treated by the body as an injury?

Answer 5

Cumulative injury cycle

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Relative flexibility

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Altered reciprocal inhibition

Question 8

The process when neural impulses that sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles

Answer 8

Autogenic inhibition

Question 9

Altered reciprocal inhibition, synergistic dominance, and arthrokinetic dysfunction all lead to what?

Answer 9

Muscle imbalance

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Pattern overload

Question 11

Law that states soft tissues models along lines of stress

Answer 11

Davis’s Law

Question 12

What are the 3 phases of the integrated flexibility continuum?

Answer 12

Corrective flexibility, active flexibility, functional flexibility

Question 13

The type of flexibility designed to improve extensibility of soft tissue and increase neuromuscular efficiency by using reciprocal inhibition

Answer 13

Active flexibility

Question 14

What are 2 techniques used in corrective flexibility?

Answer 14

Static stretching and SMR

Question 15

What stretching technique uses agonist and synergist muscles to move a limb through its entire range of motion while stretching the functional antagonist?

Answer 15

Active-isolated stretching

Question 16

What stretching technique uses functional movements to move the body through full range of motion at realistic speeds?

Answer 16

Dynamic stretching

Question 17

Which stretching technique is used during Phase 1 of the OPT model?

Answer 17

Static stretching

Question 18

Which stretching techniques is used during phases 2, 3, and 4 of the OPT model?

Answer 18

Active-isolated stretching

Question 19

Which stretching technique is used during Phase 5 of the OPT model?

Answer 19

Dynamic Stretching

Question 20

Stretching technique that focuses on the neural system and fascial system of the body by applying gentle force to an adhesion

Answer 20

Self-myofascial release

Question 21

What is the minimum amount of time static stretches should be held?

Answer 21

30 seconds

Question 22

What are 3 things a client should have established prior to incorporating dynamic stretching into a program?

Answer 22

Good levels of tissue extensibility, core stability, balance capabilities

Question 23

What is the minimum duration pressure should be sustained on adhesions while performing SMR?

Answer 23

30 seconds