review worksheet Flashcards
Therapeutic exercise “is the systematic, planned performance of bodily movements, postures, or physical activities intended to provide a patient/client with the means to what?
Remediate or prevent impairments
Improve, restore, or enhance physical function
Prevent or reduce health-related risk factors
Optimize overall health status, fitness, or sense of well-being
It is important that a PTA be able to understand and articulate (verbally and in written form) the relationship between impairments and the impact on functional limitations, participation restrictions and disability. Utilizing the Nagi Model, provide an example of a pathology, impairments and functional limitations that resulted from the pathology that you observed clinically.
Pathology: TKA
Impairments: significant loss of ROM
Functional Limitations: cannot transfer from bed<>w/c
Disability? Unable to get around at home and take care of self
Aspects of Physical Function
Impairment of any one or more of the body systems and subsequent impairment of any of the following aspects of physical function can result in functional limitations and disability.
what are the aspects?
- Balance
- Cardiopulmonary Fitness
- Coordination
- Flexibility
- Mobility
- Muscle Performance
- Neuromuscular Control
- Postural Control
- Stability
Consider 3 activities of daily living or recreational activities that you currently perform or would like to perform effectively and efficiently.
- get my kids up and ready for school
- Yoga
- Go to school
What aspects of physical function are needed to complete each of these tasks?
All of them
Therapeutic Exercise Interventions**(Know These!)
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- Stretching techniques including muscle lengthening and joint mobilization techniques\
- Neuromuscular control, inhibition and facilitation techniques and posture awareness training
- Aerobic conditioning and reconditioning
- Postural control, body mechanics, and stabilization exercises
- Balance exercises and agility training
- Muscle performance exercises: strength, power and endurance training
- Breathing exercises and ventilatory muscle training
- Relaxation exercises
- Task-specific functional training
Provide 1-2 examples of the types of therapeutic exercises that were utilized in your clinic and how you feel it impacted (or could impact) patient deficits in the aspects of physical function.
- Bean bag pickup- This was demonstrated by a pt with sternal precautions that was going home the next day. He also just received a Drako boot the day before and was learning how to maneuver it.. We put bean bags on the floor to make sure he could pick them up with and without a device. This was to practice dynamic movement to helpf facilitate safe and effective balance.
- The Nu-step- This was a recumbant LE and UE bike to help stengthen the pts cardiovascular system needed to assist with safe and effective amb.
When a muscle cannot stretch anymore
Passive Insufficiency:
shortening or hypomoblilty of the skin, fascia, muscle, or joint capsule that prevents normal mobiltiy or flexibility of that structure
Contracture
when there is slight tension in the muscles and tissue.
Tightness
when a contracture cannot be stretched out.
Irreversible contracture:
stretching beyond the normal ROM of a joint and the surrounding soft tissue
Overstretching
technique where the pt is taught to stretch a joint or soft tissue passively by using another body part for applying the force
Selective stretching
The pt is not providing any assistance with a stretch.
Passive stretching
a type of stretching exercise in which there is reflex inhibition and subsequent elongation of the contractile elemnts of muscles.
Active inhibition
The muscle must be challenged to perform at a level greater than that to which it is accustomed.
Overload principle
Specificity is a necessary foundation on which exercise programs should be built.
The SAID (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands) principle
Adaptive effects of training are highly specific to the training method employed. Therefore, whenever possible, exercises incorporated into a program should mimic the anticipated function.
Specificity of training or specificity of exercise
Carryover of training effects from one variation of exercise or task to another.
Example:
Transfer of training, overflow or cross training
Example: A program designed to improve muscular strength may also have an impact (at least moderately) in muscular endurance