Chapter 7- Flexibility Training Concepts

Question 1

Flexibility

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Relative Flexibility

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Neuromuscular efficiency

Answer 3

the body’s ability to produce, reduce, and stabilize forces in all three planes of motion.

Question 4

Autogenic Inhibition

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Cumulative Injury Cycle

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Altered Reciprocal Inhibition

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Muscle Imbalance

Question 8

Pattern overload

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Law that states soft tissue models along lines of stress…

Answer 9

Davis’s Law

Question 10

What are the 3 phases of the integrated flexibility continuum?

Answer 10

Corrective flexibility, active flexibility, functional flexibility

Question 11

Active Flexibility

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What are 2 techniques used in corrective flexibility?

Answer 12

Static stretching and SMR (self-myofascial release)

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Active-isolated stretching

Question 14

According to the integrated flexibility continuum. what kind of flexibility is static stretching?

Answer 14

CORRECTIVE

Question 15

Your clients head protrudes forward during the pushing assessment, which of the following muscles would you want to static stretch for 20-40 seconds?

Answer 15

STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID

Question 16

what is the definition of the bodies tendency to seek the path of least resistance during functional movement patterns?

Answer 16

Relative Flexibility

Question 17

When excited, _____ stimulation provides an inhibitory action to the ____, which is called ______.

Answer 17

Golgi tendon organ, muscle spindle, autogenic inhibition

Question 18

A prisoner squat & single-leg squat touchdown are examples of what kind of stretches?

Answer 18

Functional.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Dynamic Stretching

Question 20

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

Answer 20

static stretching

Question 21

Which stretching technique is used during Phases 2, 3, and 4 of the OPT model?

Answer 21

Active isolated stretching

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Dynamic Stretching

Question 23

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

Answer 23

self-myodascial release

Question 24

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

Answer 24

30 seconds