NASM: Stretching and Flexibility
Certification 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Integrated Stretching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-myofascial techniques
combined with assisted and self-stretching techniques.
Fascia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connective tissue that surrounds muscles and
bones.
True or False: Stretching can directly influence hydration. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
Regional Interdependence (RI) Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment and
intervention model used by clinicians based on the concept that the site of
a patient's primary complaint or symptoms is affected by dysfunction in
remote musculoskeletal regions.
Neurophysiological System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physiological system
dealing with the functioning of the nervous system.
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,Somatovisceral System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The part of the sensory system
that responds to changes in internal body systems and organs.
Myofascia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The functional combination of both muscle and
connective tissues.
Structural Efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The alignment of each segment of
the human movement system, which allows posture to be balanced in
relation to a person's center of gravity.
Fascial System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A three-dimensional continuum of soft,
collagen-containing, loose, and dense fibrous connective tissues that
permeate the body providing functional structure and environment.
Functional Efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The ability of the neuromuscular
system to recruit correct muscle synergies, at the right time, with the
appropriate amount of force to perform functional tasks with the least
amount of energy and stress on the human movement system (HMS).
Fascial System Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The model of human movement
that considers the interconnectivity and interaction of the fascial system
throughout the body.
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,Fascial Nets - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The concept of the myofascial tensional
network that describes the interconnectedness of specific chains of muscle
and fascia located in different parts of the body as they relate to functional
movement patterns.
Super Compensation Hydration Phenomenon - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The effect
on tissue after tissue has been allowed to rest after stretch or compression;
more fluid rushes back into the tissues than was observed pre-stretch
Bound Water - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Water forming in liquid crystalline structured
patterns; Bound water has special molecular properties that enable it to
perform many crucial functions, including providing greater viscosity for the
viscoelastic properties of fasciae. This property greatly enhances the
flexibility and elasticity of the fascial system
Bulk Water - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Polluted water;
What other factors would be affecting a pronated foot-ankle complex,
according to the RI? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pronated foot-ankle complex is
only one part of a cascading chain of events, resulting in more proximal
faulty positions, like with an internally rotated knee and hip that may
anteriorly rotate the pelvis
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, A truly balanced HMS will have what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Optimal structural
and functional efficiency with proper alignment of the kinetic chain
checkpoints: the feet/ankles, knees, LPHC, shoulders, and head and neck
True or False: The FS model may be thought of as an extension of the
strategies used in the RI model to include all the various types of
connective tissues - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The FS model may be thought of as an
extension of the strategies used in the RI model to include all the various
types of connective tissues
What happens when a mechanical load is released? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An
influx of fresh fluids enters to flush out metabolic waste, rehydrate, and
bring fresh nutrients to the area.
Why is it important to have structural efficiency and the alignment of each
component of the human movement system (HMS)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔This
enables an individual to maintain their center of gravity over a constantly
changing base of support during all functional movements.
How does the Fascial System (FS) model add to functional efficiency within
the human movement system (HMS)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔It intertwines the
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Certification 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Answers | A+ Score Assured
Integrated Stretching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Self-myofascial techniques
combined with assisted and self-stretching techniques.
Fascia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connective tissue that surrounds muscles and
bones.
True or False: Stretching can directly influence hydration. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
Regional Interdependence (RI) Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment and
intervention model used by clinicians based on the concept that the site of
a patient's primary complaint or symptoms is affected by dysfunction in
remote musculoskeletal regions.
Neurophysiological System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physiological system
dealing with the functioning of the nervous system.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Somatovisceral System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The part of the sensory system
that responds to changes in internal body systems and organs.
Myofascia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The functional combination of both muscle and
connective tissues.
Structural Efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The alignment of each segment of
the human movement system, which allows posture to be balanced in
relation to a person's center of gravity.
Fascial System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A three-dimensional continuum of soft,
collagen-containing, loose, and dense fibrous connective tissues that
permeate the body providing functional structure and environment.
Functional Efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The ability of the neuromuscular
system to recruit correct muscle synergies, at the right time, with the
appropriate amount of force to perform functional tasks with the least
amount of energy and stress on the human movement system (HMS).
Fascial System Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The model of human movement
that considers the interconnectivity and interaction of the fascial system
throughout the body.
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,Fascial Nets - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The concept of the myofascial tensional
network that describes the interconnectedness of specific chains of muscle
and fascia located in different parts of the body as they relate to functional
movement patterns.
Super Compensation Hydration Phenomenon - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The effect
on tissue after tissue has been allowed to rest after stretch or compression;
more fluid rushes back into the tissues than was observed pre-stretch
Bound Water - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Water forming in liquid crystalline structured
patterns; Bound water has special molecular properties that enable it to
perform many crucial functions, including providing greater viscosity for the
viscoelastic properties of fasciae. This property greatly enhances the
flexibility and elasticity of the fascial system
Bulk Water - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Polluted water;
What other factors would be affecting a pronated foot-ankle complex,
according to the RI? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pronated foot-ankle complex is
only one part of a cascading chain of events, resulting in more proximal
faulty positions, like with an internally rotated knee and hip that may
anteriorly rotate the pelvis
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, A truly balanced HMS will have what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Optimal structural
and functional efficiency with proper alignment of the kinetic chain
checkpoints: the feet/ankles, knees, LPHC, shoulders, and head and neck
True or False: The FS model may be thought of as an extension of the
strategies used in the RI model to include all the various types of
connective tissues - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The FS model may be thought of as an
extension of the strategies used in the RI model to include all the various
types of connective tissues
What happens when a mechanical load is released? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An
influx of fresh fluids enters to flush out metabolic waste, rehydrate, and
bring fresh nutrients to the area.
Why is it important to have structural efficiency and the alignment of each
component of the human movement system (HMS)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔This
enables an individual to maintain their center of gravity over a constantly
changing base of support during all functional movements.
How does the Fascial System (FS) model add to functional efficiency within
the human movement system (HMS)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔It intertwines the
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