Muscle Relaxation & Stretching Technique

Question 1

How does end-range feel in a tight muscle?

Answer 1

Harder, fibrotic, less resilient - like your stretching leather that might snap

Question 2

What is the problem in hypertonic muscles?

Answer 2

Physiologic condition in which excitability threshold is increased creating an increased resistance to lengthening

Question 3

What does the end range feel like in a hypertonic muscle?

Answer 3

Supple, but the muscle cannot be lengthened to its expected length

Question 4

Hypertonic muscles need to be ____________.

Answer 4

Relaxed

Question 5

Tight muscles should be _________.

Answer 5

Stretched.

Question 6

Muscle weakness is often the result of ____________ ____________ from hypertonic and/or tight ________________

Answer 6

Reciprocal inhibition ; antagonists

Question 7

Muscle Energy Technique (MET)

Answer 7

Soft tissue manipulation method that involves precisely directed and controlled contractions, isometric and/or isotonic, that are initiated by the patient against a precisely controlled resistance from the therapist (you’ve had this done on hamstrings, glutes and piriformis)

Question 8

When is force applied in MET? (For both acute and chronic patients)

Answer 8

Force is applied at a “resistance barrier” (acute) or just short of it (chronic)

Question 9

Allodynia

Answer 9

The appearance of responses to previously ineffective somatosensory stimuli

Question 10

Central Sensitization

Answer 10

Long-lasting, increased excitability changes in neurons caused by nociceptive stimulation of low back tissues

Question 11

What kind of problem exists in a tight muscle?

Answer 11

Fascial or non-contractile problem