The Whole Enchilada Flashcards
Structural benefits of massage
- Improves ROM and flexibility
- Reduces muscle cramping, spasm and TrPs
- Enhances collagen remodelling
Benefits of sport massage
Psychological
Physiological
- structural
- systemic
Systemic benefits of massage
1 enchanted local circulation
2 reduces Edema
3. Reduces pain
Objectives of sport massage
- Enhance performance
- Restoration
- Injury prevention
4 rehabilitation
Types of sport massage
- Maintenance
- training
- tapering - Event
- pre-event
- Type I
- Type II
- interval
- post-event - Rehab/Treatment.
Different athlete types
Weekend warrior
Amateur athlete
Elite athlete
How is sport classified by skill?
- Task organization
- discrete skills
- serial skills
- continuous skills
- Motor vs cognitive
- Environmental predictability
- open skills
- closed skills.
Catch-up
Inefficient energy/movement/force transfer caused by breakdown in kinetic chain.
Four phases of the throw
1 wind up
- Cocking
- Acceleration
- Deceleration/follow through.
Wind up phase of throwing
Sets rhythm
Body 90 degrees to target
Lower 1/2 falls forward; upper half inactive
Cocking phase of throwing
Optimal body position for projectile propulsion.
Full AB and ER.
Creates elastic recoil.
Trunk/abs/hips contribute ends with planting of foot
Acceleration phase of throwing
Explosive phase 2%
Moore generators by elastic recoil and IR
Contribution from chest and anterior spine
Deceleration/follow through phase of throwing
Force generation and momentum
Deceleration can stress shoulder and surrounding structures
Torso contributes.
18%
Importance of the scapula
- Provides stable socket for humerus (2:1 ratio)
- Retracts and protracts along thoracic wall
- Elevates acromion
- Base for muscle attachment
- Key link in kinetic chain.
Walking gait cycle
Goes from heel strike of one foot to heel strike of same foot.
1. Stance phase 60% A. Contact B. Midstance C. Propulsion 2. Swing phase 40% A. Follow through B. Forward swing C. Foot descent.
Three main LB biomechanical abnormalities
- Over pronation
- Supination
- Abnormal pelvic movement.
Hip/knee/big toe (+ suffix)
Coxa ~a
Genu ~um
Hallucis ~us
Valga/us/um
Distal bone goes lateral
Vara/varies/varum
Distal bone goes medial
At what joiny does overpronation/supination occur?
Subtalar
What happens at the foot, ankle & shin, and knee during overpronation?
Foot: hallux vagus, sesamoid fracture, plantar fasciitis, Mortons neuroma.
Ankle & shin: Achilles tendonitis, tibial stress, compartment syndrome
Knee: patellar subluxation, patellofemoral syndrome, ITB friction syndrome