Chapter 7 - Flexibility Training Concepts Flashcards
The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allows the full range of motion of a joint.
Flexibility
Capability to be elongated or stretched.
Extensibility
The combination of flexibility and the nervous systems ability to control this range of motion efficiently.
Dynamic range of motion
The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergistically to produce, reduce, and dynamically stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three planes of motion.
Neuromuscular Efficiency.
Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances.
Postural distortion patterns
The tendency of the body to seek the path of least resistance during functional movement patterns.
Relative Flexibility
Alteration of muscle length surrounding a joint.
Muscle imbalance
The simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and the contraction of its antagonist to allow movement to take place.
Reciprocal inhibition
The concept of muscle inhibition cause by a tight agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.
Altered reciprocal inhibition.
The neuromuscular phenomenon that occurs when inappropriate muscles take over the function of a weak or inhibited prime mover.
Synergistic Dominance
The motions of joints in the body.
Arthrokinematicss
Altered forces at the joint that result in abnormal muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular communication of the joint.
arthrokinetic Dysfunction
Helps keep muscles from stretching too far too fast.
Muscle spindles
located where the muscle an tendon meet and are sensitive to changes in muscular tension and the rate of tension change
Golgi Tendon Organs
When placed under pressure allows the muscle to relax which prevents the muscle from being placed under excess stress.
Golgi Tendon Organs.
The process by which neural impulses that sense tension are greater than the impulses that cuase mus les to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles.
Autogenic Inhibition
Consistently repeating the same pattern of motion, which may place abnormal stresses on the body.
Pattern Overload
States that soft tissue models along the lines of stress
Davis’s Law
Corrective flexibility
Active flexibility
Functional flexibility
Integrated flexibility continuum
Self myofacial release and static stretching fall into which stage of the flexibility continuum.
Corrrective flexibility
SMR and Active isolated stretching fall into which stage of the integrated flexibility continuum?
Active flexibility
