Stability and balance

Question 1

Difference between stability and balance

Answer 1

Balance is about keeping the center of gravity over the base of support, stability is about overcoming the resistance to that tries to pull us out of position.

Balance is staying upright, and stability is staying strong and steady.

Question 2

two forms of stability

Answer 2

Passive stability is the stability that ligaments, bone structures and joints naturally possess.
Active stability involves the muscles that keep joints and bone structures in position or prevent unwanted movements in these joints or bone structures.

Question 3

The relationship between stability and mobility

Answer 3

they have a synergistic relationship

mobility is flexibility that you can actively control and a range within which you can produce strong and stable movement.
Stability is enabling desired movement while resisting unwanted movement.

Each joint is part of a series of joints in a chain. If a part of the chain does not function well due to insufficient mobility or stability, there is an energy leak and the kinetic chain as a whole cannot move optimally.

Question 4

the Joint-by-Joint Approach

Answer 4

the body is composed of a stack of joints (chains), each has a specific function and to some extent predictable levels of dysfunction.

Approach divides the body into segments that require mobility and stability.

stability and mobility alternate. From the bottom to top: the foot requires stability, the ankle requires increased mobility, the knee stability, the hip mobility, the lumbar spine stability, the thoracic spine mobility, the shoulder blade region stability, the shoulder joint mobility and the neck stability.

Question 5

Training on an unstable surface

Answer 5

unstable surfaces are used in rehabilitation to train stability.

One form of this type of training is standing on a small, soft inflatable disc with one leg (Figure 1). This challenges you to stabilize your ankle, knee and hip.

Question 6

Unstable surface and strengh training

Answer 6

An unstable surface can have a negative effect on force output.
The transfer of skills developed in exercises done on an unstable surface to other athletic performance is low