Range of Motion
Normal ROM for thoracic rotation
What is 45 degrees?
Proper extensibility of a muscle or group of muscles
What is flexibility?
If the heels come off the floor, this muscle group is likely tight
What are the plantarflexors or calves?
A static stretch should be held for this amount of time:
What is 30 seconds or 30-60 seconds
This component of mobility describes how bones are configured
What is boney congruency?
Normal ROM for shoulder extension?
What is 50 (or 50-60) degrees?
The distance and direction a joint can move
What is mobility?
The compensation we look for at the knees during the overhead squat
What is knee valgus?
True or False: Neurological adaptations play the biggest role in muscle flexibility training
What is THE TRUTH
According to our cadaver weirdo Gil Hadley, the "fuzz" is a build up of this
During the Thomas Test the knee should bend to ____ degrees without the lumbar spine leaving the table.
What is 80 degrees?
A discrete hyperirritable, ischemic spot in the muscle
What is a trigger point?
This checkpoint is abbreviated as LPHC:
What is the lumbo pelvic hip complex?
The muscle spindles are able to sense a change in _________.
Rate of change in length of muscle
The three primary causes of trigger points
What is injury, overuse, or other trigger points?
Normal ROM for internal shoulder rotation?
What is 70 degrees (or 20 degrees from table)?
the ROM that enables one to perform one’s tasks with the greatest combination of efficiency and integrity
What is ideal range of motion?
These POSTERIOR muscles are tight when we see an excessive lower back arch
What are the spinal erectors and the lats?
PNF stretching activates these proprioceptors
What are the golgi tendon organs?
A trigger point that develops in the referred pain zone of another trigger point
What is a satellite trigger point?
In a dorsiflexion assessment, the knee should touch the wall when the toes are this distance from the wall.
What is 9-10 cm?
PNF stands for ______________
Two muscles that might be tight if the arms fall forward:
middle and lower trapezius, rhomboids, rotator cuff, anterior delts
What are nociceptors?
In the Apley's Scratch Test, this is what is being addressed on the bottom arm
What is extension and internal rotation?