Pathfit Flashcards
is the process of analyzing movement tasks for the purpose of understanding how an individual uses their body. The movement strategies they adopt, are or will contribute to their physical performance or mechanisms of injury.
Movement screening
is described as the ability to move free of dysfunction or pain.
Movement competency
has been expressed as movement strategies that contribute more to injury than performance.
Movement disfunction
Trainor and Coaches (to ensure that the training prescribed enhances performance and does not contribute to injury)
Strength and conditioning professional
is to identify which fundamental movement patterns can be aggressively loaded and which require development issues.
Movement competency screen
Perform a body weight squat with your fingertips on the side of your head. Squat as low as you comfortably can.
Body weight squat
Cross your arms and place your hands on your shoulders with your elbows pointing straight ahead. Perform a forward lunge then rotate toward the forward knee. Just rotate toward the knee then return to center and return to the standing position. Alternate legs with each rep.
Lunge and Twist
Start with your arms stretched overhead. Bend forward allowing you arms to drop under your trunk. Pull your hands into your body as if you were holding onto a bar and performing a barbell rowing exercise. Return to the starting position with your arms stretched overhead.
Bend and pull
Perform a single body weight squat with your fingertips on the side of your head and the non-stance leg positioned behind the body. Squat as low as you comfortably can.
Single Leg Squat
are specific set of skills that involve different body parts such as feet, legs, trunk, head, arms and hands.
Fundamental movement pattern
for more compound and specific skills that individuals will need throughout their lives to competently participate in different games, sports and recreational activities.
Structure blocks
is a fundamental body movement that does not require moving in any direction.
Non locomotor movement
refers to movement that moves from one place to another
Locomotor movement
The two locomotor movement
It is commonly divided into two movements:
1.the linear (moving forward in a straight line pattern)
2. lateral (moving sideward in a straight line pattern) movements.
Fundamental Movement Patterns and Definition
- Gait It refers to a person’s pattern of walking.
- Twist-Form into a bent, curling or distorted shape
- Pull-An act f taking hold of something and exerting force to draw it toward one. It is when your hands are facing away from you.
- Lunge-A sudden forward thrust of the body, typically with an arm outstretched to
- Push-Are those in which you are either pushing an object away from your body
- Hip hinge-Is a movement where the thoracic and lumbar spine and pelvis stay in a relatively neutral position while the subject bends forward
- Squat A strength exercise in which the individual lowers their hips from a standing position and then stands back up
