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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Biomechanics

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The study of how internal and external forces affect a living body (especially for the skeletal system)

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Superior

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A position above a point of reference.

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Inferior

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A position below a point of reference

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Proximal

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A position near the center of your body or a point of reference. Your knee joint is more – to your hip joint then your ankle joint is.

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Distal

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A position that is farther away from the center of your body or point of reference. Your ankle is more __ to your hips then your knees are.

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Anterior (Ventral)

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This refers to the front of your body facing forward. Your chest is ___ on your body.

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Posterior (Dorsal)

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This refers to the back of your body. Your back and your hamstrings are __

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Medial

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This refers to things close to the midline of the body. Your adductors are closer to the midline of your body compared to your abductors.

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Lateral

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Positioned on the outside of the body. Your ears are on the lateral side of your head

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Contralateral

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These are things located on the opposite side of your body. Your left foot is __to your right hand.

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Ipsilateral

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These are things located on the same side of your body. You are left foot is ___ to your left hand.

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Anatomic position

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is important as a point of reference for anatomic nomenclature. When the body is erect, the arms at your side and your palms facing forward. This way we can reference what is posterior, anterior, medial or lateral by referencing this default position.

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Sagittal plane

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splits the body into a right half and they left half. Extension and flexion are movements in this plane.

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Flexion

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This is a bending movement where a relative angle between two adjacent sections decreases. It’s easier to imagine two separate reference points. A good example is of knee flexion. In this example, the two reference points are your calves and your hamstrings. As knee flexion occurs, the distance between your calves and hand strings decrease as they get closer to one another. As the knee goes into extension they move further away from each other, or the relative angle increases with the knee extension and decreases with knee flexion.

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Extension

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This is the opposite of flexion. The relative angle between adjacent sections increases as with my knee extension example.

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Hyperextension

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This is the extension beyond the normal limits of the body.

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Frontal plane

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This is a vertical plane that has right angles compared to the sagittal plane breaking up the body between frontal and posterior planes.

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Abduction

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The act that typically moves a limb away from the midline of the body in the frontal plane.

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Adduction

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The act that typically moves a limb towards the midline of the body in the frontal plane.

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Transverse plane

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the plane that divides the body into a lower and upper section.

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Internal rotation

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When a limb rotates in the transverse plane going towards the midline of the body. If looked from a bird’s eye view, a limb moving counterclockwise going towards the midline of the body.

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External rotation

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When a limb rotates in the transverse plane going away from the midline of the body. If looked at from a bird’s eye view, a limb moving clockwise away from the midline of the body.

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Horizontal adduction

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Imagine the movement of a chest fly.

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Horizontal abduction

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Imagine the movement of a rear deltoid fly.

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Scapular motion

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The act of moving the shoulder blades away from the midline.

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Scapular retraction

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The act of moving the shoulder blades in the direction of the midline.

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Scapular elevation

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The act of elevating the shoulder blades towards the superior.

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Scapular depression

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The active lowering the shoulder blades towards the inferior.

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Concentric

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happens when the contraction is accompanied by the shortening of the muscle tissue.

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Eccentric

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is accompanied by the lengthening of the muscle tissue.

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Isometric

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when no change in the length of the muscle happens.

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Isokinetic

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action is when the contraction speed of a muscle is constant.

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Force

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Any movement that results in the speeding up or slowing down of an object.

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Length-tension relationships

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This is the perfect length of a muscle that will result in the most force produced. The ability of a muscle to produce force at its current range.

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Torque

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Something that tends to produce rotation or torsion. The movement of a system or force that typically leads to a rotation

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Rotary motion

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This is rotational movements from the joints.

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Force couple

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Groups of muscles that work with one another in order to produce a force on a joint.

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Sensorimotor integration

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How the muscular and nervous system cooperates to gather and interpret information in order to execute the movement.

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Proprioception

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This is the cumulative sensory input to the CNS (Central nervous system) from all of the various mechanoreceptors that can sense limb movement and body position. training improves coordination, posture, and balance.

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Muscle synergies

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Muscles that are controlled by the central nervous system in order to produce the same movements.

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Motor development

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The maturation of muscle coordination.

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Motor learning

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The process of improving one’s motor skills with practice. This results in lasting changes and one’s overall capability of responding.

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Motor control

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The process where people use cognition in order to coordinate the muscles and limbs of the body.

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Motor behavior

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Response to external and internal stimuli from the environment. The overall study of motor development, motor learning and motor control (a.k.a. movement).

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External feedback

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This is information that one will get about their performance from external sources. Usually visual, verbal or written.

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Internal feedback

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This is how you personally feel after you have practice or performed a certain skill.

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Feedback

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This is a biological system where the response or the output affects the initial input. Your sensory system gathers input from your motor system in order to adapt and learn new motor skills.

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Synergistic dominance

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The neuromuscular phenomenon that occurs when inappropriate muscles take over the function of a weak or inhibited prime mover

49
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Which muscle concentrically accelerates dorsiflexion and inversion?

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Anterior Tibialis

50
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Which muscle concentrically accelerates hip extension and external rotation?

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Gluteus maximus

51
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Which muscle concentrically accelerates hip flexion, abductions, and internal rotation?

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Tensor fascia latae

52
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Which muscle concentrically accelerates spinal flexion, lateral flexion, and rotation?

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Rectus abdominus

53
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Which muscle concentrically accelerates scapular retraction?

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middle trapezius

54
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Which muscle eccentrically decelerates shoulder flexion, abduction, and external rotation?

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latissimus dorsi

55
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In order, which muscles are the agonist, synergist, and antagonist during hip extension?

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Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, psoas

56
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Which muscles are the synergists used in a shoulder press

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Deltoid, rotator cuff, trap

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