Functional Movement Assessment and Training Flashcards
What is functional movement?
- foundations for human movement
- flexibility, muscular balance, balance control
- bigger picture: watching how the body moves as a whole to perform tasks
- not instead, but complimentary
What is incorrect body mechanics caused by?
- mobility, stability, or muscular imbalances
- poor efficiency, energy draining, hard work
- faulty motor systems
What does having good body mechanics do?
- more efficient
- train harder
- recover faster
- relaxed state (vs. stiffness)
What is mobility? Give an example.
- freedom of movement
- keeping heels flat when squatting past parallel
What is stability?
ability to control strength
What are natural features?
patterns that result from habits, activities, injuries, dominances, etc.
What is Functional Movement Systems used for?
- before: to rate and rank movement patterns in high school athletes
- now: used to determine corrective exercises, rehabilitation, training
What is Functional Movement Systems?
- fundamental movements, motor control, and basic movement patterns
- it determines areas of movement deficiency/limitations or asymmetries using a graded system
- not a training tool or competition tool. Discovery tool (not why, but that a problem exists)
- anyone can do it
Name the 7 exercises in the Fundamental Movement Screen.
- deep squat
- hurdle step
- in-line lunge
- shoulder mobility
- active leg lift
- stability push-up
- rotary stabilization
Name 4 keys in fixing fundamental movement.
- one problem at a time
- right-left problems before limitations
- imbalance with the greatest limitation first
- retest every 1 to 2 weeks
What does poor scoring on screens of fundamental movement mean?
- compensatory movement patterns utilized
- leads to poor biomechanics
- increased potential for injury
What is myofascial training?
- focuses on fundamental movement
- utilizes connective tissue “lines”
What are the 3 principles of myofascial training?
- develop a base of stability and mobility
- quality of movement and skill execution (improve economy of movement)
- focus on core activation, anchoring/connecting arms and shoulders to torso, athletic position
Describe the anatomy of myofascial (fascial) training.
- connective tissue wrappings (provides elasticity, force production)
- muscles connected to each other (sheets of connective tissue)
How does the anatomy of myofascial training affect isolated muscle movements?
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