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Domain 1 Flashcards

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Nervous System

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Communication network within the body

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Central Nervous system CNS

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Brain and spinal cord it cordinates activity of they body

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Peripheral nervous system PNS

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Nerves connecting the CNS to the rest of the body and enviroment

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Periphear nervous system subdivions

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Somatic: Serves outer areas of the body and skeletal muscles.
Autonomic: Involntary systems such as heart or digestive system

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Autonmic subdivions

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Parasympathetic: Decrease activiation during rest and recovery
Sypathetic: Increase activaition to prep for activity

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Neuron

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Function unit of the nervouse system

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Motor (Efferent) neurons

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Transmit nerve impules from CNS TO EFFECTOR SITES

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Sensory (Afferent) Neurons

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Respinde to stimuli; transmit nerve impules from effector sites to CNS

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Mechanoreceptors

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Sense distortion in body tissues

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Joint Receptors

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Respond to pressure, acceleration, and deceleration on joints

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Golgi tendon organs GTO

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Senses change in muscular tension

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Muscle Spindles

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Sense Changes in muscle length

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Tendons

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Connect muscle to bone and provide an ancor point for muscles to produce force

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Fascia

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Outer layer of connective tissue surrounding a muscle

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Fascicles

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Bundle of individule muscle fibers

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Muscle fiber

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Celluelar components and myofibrils encaes in plasma membrane

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Sarcomere

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Produces muscular contracation; repeating section of actin and myosin

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Sliding filament theory

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Thick and think filaments slide past one another, shortening the entire sacomere

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Type 1 slow twitch muscles

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smaller size and fatigue slowly

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Type 2 quick twtich muscles

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larger in size are quick to produce maximal tension and fatigue quickly

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Motor unit

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One motor neuron and the muscle fibers it connects with

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Neural activation

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Contraction of a muscle generated by neaural stimulation

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Neurotransmitter

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Chemicl messengers that transport impulses from nerve to muscle

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Local stabilaztion system

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Attaches directly to vertebrea consistes of the transvere abdominis, internal oblique, multifidus, pelvic floor and diaphragm

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Gloabl stabilizaiton system

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Attaches from pelvis to spine, consistes of quadratus lumbrorum, psoas majorm external obliquem rectus abdominis, gluteus medius, adductir complex and portions of internal oblique

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Movment system

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Attaches the spin and or pelvis to the extremites consists od latissumus dordi, hip flexors, hamstring complez, quadricpes

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Acial skleton

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Skull, rib cage and verterbal column

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Appendicular skelotin

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Upper and lower extremites shoulder and pelvic gurdles

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Skeletal system function

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Supports, protects, allows bodily movemnts, produces blood and stores minerals

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Depressions

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Flattens or indenter portions of bone can be muscle attament sites

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Process

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Projection protruding from a bone, muscl, tendons and ligments that can attatch

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Ligaments

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Connects bone to none they have little blood supply and are slow to heal

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33
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Arthokinmmatics

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Joint motions

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34
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Non- Synovial Joints

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No joint cavity, conncetive tissues or cartulage, little to no movement

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Synovial joints

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Held together by joint capsule and ligaments. assocaited with movements

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36
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Major motion typers

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Roll, slide, spin

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37
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Important motion types to know

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Hinge: Elbows, ankles, sagittal plane movement

Ball and socket: Shoulders hips, most modbile all three planes of motion

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38
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Weight baring exercise

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Is the best method to strengthen bones

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39
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Endocrine system

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System of glands secreaste homrmoes to regulate bodily function

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40
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Tesosterone

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Responsible for male sex traits

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41
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Estrogen

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Responsible for female sex traites

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42
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Growth Hormone

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Anabolic hormone response for bodily groth until puberty

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43
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Insulin

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Regulates energy and glucose metabolism in the body

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Cardiorespitory system

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Cardiovascular and respiratory systems

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Cardiovasuclar system

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Heart, Blodd, and blood vessels

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46
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Cardiac muscle

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Shorter more tightly connected that skelatl muscle this is involuntary

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47
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Atria

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Small superior chambers of the heart that recives blood from veins

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48
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Right atrium

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Gather deoxygenated blood returning to the hears

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Left Atrium

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Gather oxygenated blood from the lungs

50
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Sinoatrail (SA) node

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Located in righ atrium; initiates impules for heart heat rate this is the pacemaker for the heart

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Ventricles

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Larger inferior chambers of the heart pump blood out

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Right Ventricle

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Pumps deoxygenated blood to lungs

53
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Left Ventricle

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Pumps oxygenated blood to the body

54
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Arteris

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Carry blood away from the heart

55
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Veins

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Transport blood back to the hearts

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Atrerioles

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Small branches of arteries end in capillaries

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Capillaries

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Smalled blood vessles site of gas, chemical and water exchange

58
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Venules

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Very small veins, connect capillaries to larger veins

59
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Stroke volume

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Amount of blood pumped with each contraction

60
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Heart Rate

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The rate of whcih the heart pumps blood the avererage untrained adult is 70-80Bpm

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Cardiac Output

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Volume of blood pumped per minute heart rate x stroke volume

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Rspiratory sytem

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Lungs and repiratory passageways brings in oxygens and removes CO2

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Inspiration

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Contracting insiratiory muscles to move are into lungs

64
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Insiratory muscles

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Primary: Diaphragm, external intercosals
Seconday: Scalens, pectoralis mior and sternoclediomastoid

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Expiration

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Relaxing inspiratory muscles (Passive) contracting expuraty muscles ( Active) to move air out.

66
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Ecpiratoty muscles

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Internal inercostals abdominals

67
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Resting oxygen consumption (Vo2)

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3.5ml x kg^-1 x min^-1 = 1 metabolic equvalent =MET

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Maximal oxygen consumption (Vo2Max)

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Highest rate of oxygen transport and untilization achived and maximal physical exertion

69
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Abnoraml breathing patterns

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Accoiated with stress and anxiety; may result in headaches, fatigue, poor circulation and poor sleep paterns

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Cardiorespitroy exercise

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Increase: Cardac output, breathing efficency, oxygen transport and use ,use of fats for fuel, mental alerness ability to relxax and sleep, tolerance to stress, lean body mass, metabolic rate
Decrease: ressting heart rate, cholesteral, blood pressure, and the risk of heart disease, blood clots, depression, anxiety, obesity, and diabetes

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Bioenergetcs

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Study of enery in the human body

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Metabolism

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Process in which nutrietns are acquired, tranports, and used and disposed of in the body

73
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Aerobic

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Requires oxygen

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Anaerobic

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With out oxygen

75
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Adenosine triphosphate ATP

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Energy storage and transfer unit with in cells

76
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Anaerobic threshold

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Where the body can no longer produce enough energy with normal oxygen intake

77
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Exxess post oxygen consumption (EPOC)

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Elevation of metablolism after exercise

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Biomechanics

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Scince concernd with internal and external forces actin on the body

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Force

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Influnce applied by one object to another, accelerates or decceralerate, the second object

80
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Torque

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A force that produces rotation

81
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Lever and its 3 clasess

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Ridged bar that rotates aroud and statonary fulcrum
1 class: fulcrum in the middle (nodding head)
2 class: resistance in the middle (Calf raise) 
3 class effort in the middle (Biceps curl) this is the most common in human limbs
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Superior

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Above a point of refernce

83
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Inferior

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Below a point of refernce

84
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Proximal

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Nearest to a point of reference

85
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Distal

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Farthest from a point of reference

86
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Anterior

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Front of the body

87
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Posterior

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Back of the body

88
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Medial

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Closer to center of body

89
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Lateral

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Farther from the middle fo the body

90
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Contralateral

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On opposite side of the body

91
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Ipsilater

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On same side of the body

92
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Frontal Plan Motians and examples

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Adduction/Abduction, Lateral flexion, Eversion/Inversion

Side later raise, side lunge, side shuffle

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Sagittal Plan

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Flexion/Exstions

Bicep curl, tricep push down, squat

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Transverse Plan

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Rotation, Horizontal aduction/abduction

Throwing, golfing, swinging a bat, trunk rotation

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Flexion

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Bending movemnet decrease relative angle berween segments

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Extsenton

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Strightening movemnet increase relative angle between sements

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Plantarflextion

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Exenstion at the ankle

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Dorsiflexion

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Flexion at the ankle

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Abduction

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Movemnt in the frontal plan away from the middle

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Adduction

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Movemnet in the frontal plan toward the biddle

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Horizontal abduction

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Transvese plan arm movemnet from antior to lateral (Chest flys)

102
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Horzontal adduction

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Transverse plans arm movemnt from lateral to anterior

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Internal rotation

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Rotaion toward the middle of the body

104
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Exteranl Rotation

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Rotation away from the middle of the body

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Concentric

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Moving in the opposite direction of force, accelrate of produces foarce, the muscle shortnes

106
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Eccentric

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Muscle devolps tension while lengthing decelerates force

107
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Isometric

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Musclar force equal to resistive force, stabalizes force, no change in muscle lenght

108
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Lenght tension relationship

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Resting length of a muscle and the tension it can produce at that lenght

109
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Force couple

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Muscle working togethor to produce movements

110
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Forve velocity curve

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As the velocity of a contraction increase concentric force decrease and eccentric force increase

111
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Neuromuscular efficiency

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Ability to produce and reduce force and stablize the kniectic chain in all three plans of motion

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Strucatusl efficenecy

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Allgnment of the musculoskelatal system that allows center of gravity to be maintained over a base of support

113
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Davis law

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Soft tissue models along the lines of stress

114
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Autogenic inhibition

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Nerual impules that sense tension are greater than the impulese that cause muscules to contrat provides inhibiroty effect to the muscle spingles

115
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Reciporocl inhibions

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Stimulaneous contranaction of one muscle, and relaxation of ints antagonist to allow movemnet

116
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Relative flexability

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Tendancy of the body to seek the path of least resistance

117
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Pattern overload

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Constietal repated the same motion places abnormal stresses on the body

118
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Postural distotion patterns

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Predictable patters of muscle imbalances

119
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Altered recupocal inhibition

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Muscle inhibition caused by a tight agonist which inhibits its functional antagonist

120
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Synergistic domiance

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Inapproriate muscle taks over function of a weak inhibited prime mover

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Muscle imbalnace

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Alteration of muscle length surronding a joint

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OPT MODEL

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Stabalization: ability to maintina postural quilibriam and support joints duing movemnet
Strenght: Ability of the neuromuscular system to produce internal tension to overcome an external force
Strenght endurence: Ability to repeatedly produce high level of force for prolonged periods
Muscular hypertophy: Enlargemnt of skeletal muscle fibers from resistane training
Maximal strenght: Maximal force a muscle can produce in a single vountary effort
Power: Ability to produce greatest force in shortest time

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