NASM Chapter 7 Flashcards
Neuromuscular Efficiency
The ability of the neuromuscular system to enable all muscles to efficiently work together in all planes of motion.
Relative Flexibility
The tendency of the body to seek the path of least resistance during functional movement patterns.
Static Stretching
Used to correct existing muscle imbalance and lengthen over active (tight) muscle.
Active Stretching
Used to increase the extensibility of soft tissue through reciprocal inhibition. Active isolated stretching allows agonists and synergists muscle to move a limb through a full range go motion while the function antagonist are being stretched.
Altered reciprocal inhibition
The concept of muscle inhibition caused by a tight agonist which inhibits its function antagonist.
Autogenic inhibition
The process by which neural impulses that sense tension are greater the the impasse that causes muscles to contract, providing inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles.
Cumulative Injury Cycle
Poor posture and repetitive movements create dysfunction within the connective tissue of the body. This dysfunction is treated by the body as injury and as a result, the body will initiate a repair process termed the cumulative injury, and a result, the body will initiate a repair process termed the cumulative injury cycle forms know as adhesions or knots.
Dynamic Stretching
Dynamical or function stretching is used to increase flexibility with optimal neuromuscular control. This should be used once the clients have demonstrated adequate control over the motions to prevent injury.
Athrokintetic Dysfunction
Altered forces at the joint that result in abnormal muscular activity and impairs neuromuscular communication at the joint.
Davies law
States that soft tissue models along the lines of stress. New tissue is built after the cumulative injury cycle.
