General
The muscles involved in locomotion, movement, and expression.
What are phasic muscles?
This term describes muscles that are excessively relaxed, leading to joint instability and floppiness.
What is hypotonicity?
Stretch receptors monitor tonus by ________.
What is: sensing the change in fiber lengthening?
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What are hippopotamus?
The functional unit of a group of muscle fibers and the nerve that innervates them.
What is a motor unit?
This chronic condition often leads to hypertonic muscles in the neck and shoulders, contributing to tension headaches, panic attacks, and an overactive sympathetic nervous system.
What is stress or anxiety?
True or False: Tonus in muscles that hold us upright is maintained with higher brain control.
What is: true?
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What is Canadian Thanksgiving?
Another term for tonic muscles.
What are postural muscles?
This term describes muscles with excessive stiffness or resistance to passive movement.
What is hypertonicity?
True or False: Fascial mobilization is the only way to promote structural integration.
What is: False?
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¿Que es el queso?
The type of fibers that make up a majority of the tonic muscle fibers.
What are slow-twitch fibers?
Neurological damage from this condition often leads to hemiparesis, with hypertonicity affecting one side of the body. It can also be a golfing swing.
What is a stroke?
According to the article based on Godard's understanding of the role of tonic function, this is "the sum total of the work of tonic function."
What is coordination?
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The type of stimulation that tonic muscles receive via the nervous system?
What is asynchronous stimulation?
When muscles are overly tight, they may limit this quality, which describes how far a joint can move.
What is flexibility or ROM?
The Basic Tonic Function Scheme Diagram details four factors that are described as "potential entry points for change in the gravity response of the body." List them.
What are: coordination patterns of movement (acquired automatic subroutines), expression (psychological), impression (perception), gravity (posture/structure)?
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Who is Monica Lewinsky?