ISSA Corrective Exercise Intro Flashcards
A person who instructs and prescribes exercise
Personal Trainer
A licensed health-care professional who helps patients reduce pain, improve mobility, and enhance movement patterns.
Physical Therapist
A group of tendons and four muscles that attach the upper arm to the shoulder blade
Rotator Cuff
Any physical, psychological, or environmental factor that can increase a person’s likelihood of developing an injury or disease.
Risk Factor
The position of a person’s body while standing, sitting, or moving.
Posture
An anterior positioning of the cervical spine
Forward Head Posture
The maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation.
Vital Capacity
An abnormal forward curvature of the thoracic spine
Thoracic Kyphosis
The number of deaths within a specific population of people.
Mortality Rate
The shock-absorbing, gel-filled structure between each vertebra.
Intervertebral Disc
A form of exercise that requires a large percentage of a person’s physical power.
High-intensity Exercise
A strength sport that requires a person to lift the largest load possible for one repetition in the squat, deadlift, and bench press.
Powerlifting
A physical motion occuring at one or more joints that is influenced by mobility, stability, posture, and motor control.
Movement
The snatch and the clean and jerk.
Olympic Lifts
The maximal force that a muscle or muscle group can generate
Strength
The ability to move freely through a normal range of motion using minimal effort.
Mobility
The process of activating and coordinating muscles during movement
Motor Control
A physician who specializes in restoring normal function to the bones, muscle, and nervous system.
Physiatrist
A licensed clinician trained to restore interactions between the spine and nervous system
Chiropractor
A physician who specializes in treating disease and injury with medicine
Medical Doctor
The faulty execution of an exercise or multiple-joint movement due to a lack of mobility, stability, posture, and/or motor control.
Movement Dysfunction
When one muscle is stronger and/or stiffer than is the muscle that opposes its actions.
Muscle Imbalance
A ligament that attaches on the femur and tibia that resists excessive motion at the knee joint
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
A body that is able to withstand wear or damage
Durable Body
The act of removing restrictions from muscles and connective tissues.
Soft Tissue Mobilization
A health-care professional trained to help prevent and treat physical injuries
Athletic Trainer
A relatively automatic movement pattern produced by the nervous system.
Motor Program
The area of communication between two neurons or between a neuron and muscle.
Synapse
The brain, spinal cord, and associated nerves
Nervous System
The knowledge a person acquires through observation and experience.
Empirical Evidence
A movement that is useful for its intended purpose.
Functional Movement
The general well-being of an individual.
Quality of life.
