Final exam ch 15-18 Flashcards
What are the reasons why children want to participate in organized youth sports?
To improve their skills, to have fun, to be with friends, to be part of a team, to experience excitement, to receive awards, to win, to become fit.
What are the reasons why children quit youth sports?
For interpersonal problems, to pursue leisure activity, to pursue other sports, or because it is not fun.
What are the changes that children would make to youth sports?
Make practices more fun, more playing time, no conflict with studies, and better coach-player interaction.
What is “spearing” in football?
Outlawed tackling technique in which the helmet is used as a weapon.
“Little League elbow”
Overuse injury from repeated forces being applied to the medial and lateral structures of the elbow. Pain occurs on elbow’s medial side. Common in young baseball pitchers.
Reducing body weight through rapid dehydration
Extremely dangerous and should never be done. Without adequate body fluids, the cells, kidneys, blood, and sweating mechanisms cannot function properly.
What is the primary reason provided for coaching youth sport leagues?
Personal enjoyment, skill development of players, character development of players, and personal challenge.
What percentage of volunteer coaches lack the necessary formal preparation to coach?
90%
What is the most popular interscholastic sport for boys?
Football
What is the most popular interscholastic sport for girls?
Track and Field
Rare disability where something goes wrong during fetal development causing joints to fuse and muscles to atrophy. A structural deficit. Children with this have deficit that doesn’t allow them to bend their knees and elbows
Arthrogyrposis
The Neuromaturation theory
Suggests that development is primarily biologically driven. Believes that environment has little to do with development. Motor delays related to central nervous system.
Muscle problem where one muscle group is firing all the time
Spacticity
Quadriplegia
Complete severation at the cervical spinal level, paralysis in all four limbs (loss of sensation, movement, reflexes)
Paraplegia
Complete severation at the thoracic level, paralysis in the legs. (spinal cord injuries)
What are the major purposes of the cerebellum?
To assist in maintenance of muscle action, and receive and integrate all sensations received from the sensory systems. Promote consistent and smooth activation and control between paired agonist and antagonist muscles.
What happens with Asthenia?
Skeletal muscles tire quickly after minor activity
What is apraxia?
A disorder of motor planning, or difficulty carrying out non-habitual, purposeful movement. Damage to cerebrum. They appear to be clumsy and poorly coordinated, particularly when learning new motor task.
How does memory work?
It is a system that holds information for future processing and allows information to be recognized and movement plans to be created or recalled.
Peripheral level of memory, limitless capacity
Short-term sensory
Mid range memory, limited capacity of 7 items for 30-60 seconds
short-term memory
Memory with Unlimited capacity, can stay permanently
Long-term memory
The vestibular system
Located in the inner ear, stimulated in response to gravity. Normal vestibular function facilitates balance and equilibrium, stabilization of the eyes when the head if moving, and enhanced sensory organization.
What happens when the vestibular system is damaged?
abnormal muscle tone, limited postural security and postural control, poor balance, poor eye pursuit, seeking or avoiding swinging/spinning, and motion sickness.
Mental Retardation
Intellectual disability. A disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.
What is down syndrome?
A genetic disorder that can lead to developmental delays, reduced muscle tone, increased join flexibility, reduced muscle strength, and heart and respiratory problems.
What is athetoid Cerebral Palsy?
Characterized by low muscle tone and inconsistent muscle activation. Athetoid muscles feel flaccid and soft and are easily stretched, resulting in a slow, writhing movement.
What is spastic Cerebral Palsy?
Most common type, 80% of all CP. Characterized by constant muscle activation to certain muscle groups (usually agonist muscles such as biceps and quadriceps), resulting in high muscle tone. Spastic muscles feel hard or tight and resist being stretched, which can slow down and limit movement.
By age 80 or shortly thereafter, postural control may look like that seen in children between what ages?
6 and 9
What accounts for the most accidental deaths among the elderly in the United States
Falls
One of the most important strategies to reduce falling in the elderly is what?
maintain a physically active lifestyle
Older walkers are more prone to making contact with which part of the foot when walking?
Flat foot
What is a common technique employed by the elderly to overcome balance deficits of later life during walking?
Out-toeing
What is polypharmacy?
Condition where older people are over-medicated. This can result in a negative interaction among drugs, which in turn can lead to dizziness or difficulty in balance.
What is the most common source of death from sport participation for older adults?
Bicycling (290 per year)
What typically declines with age throughout adulthood?
Physiological functional capacity
What are ADLs?
Activities of daily living.
last-in-first-out hypothesis
Suggests that the neural and muscular capability to perform simple movement acts is developed early in life and appears to somewhat resist decline with aging.
What is dyspnea?
Experienced in older adults, painful or difficult breathing, which can lead to fear of overexertion.