NASM - Flexibility Training Exam Questions &
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The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow
agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work
Define: Neuromuscular
synergisticilly to produce, reduce, and dynamically
Efficiency
stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three plains of
motion
Define: Postural Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances
Distortion Patterns
The tendancy of the body to seek the path of least
resistance during functional movement patterns ( if
the muscles are lengthened, inelastic connective
Define: Relative flexibility tissue fibers acts as road blocks, preventing the
muscle fibers from moving properly. This causes
alterations in normal tissue extensibility and causes
Relative Flexibility)
What are the three Altered reciprocal inhibition, synergistic dominance,
causes of Muscle arthrokinematic dysfunction
imbalances?
Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and the
Define: Reciprocal
contraction of its antagonist to allow movement to
inhibition
occur.
During a bicep curl the biceps contract and as a
Give and example of
result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head
reciprocal inhibition.
relaxes (the antagonist)
, Define: Altered The concept of muscle inhibition, caused by a tight
Reciprocal inhibition agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.
What does altered It alters force couple relationships, produces
reciprocal inhibition lead synergistic dominance, and leads to the
to? development of faulty movement patterns
Define: Synergistic Occurs when synergists take over as prime movers
dominance due to weak or inhibited prime movers
altered forces at the join that result in abnormal
Define: Arthrokinetic
muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular
Dysfunction
communication at the joint
When assessing flexibility Overactive
dysfunction always
stretch the (BLANK)
muscles?
The process by which neural impulses that sense
Define: Autogenic tension are greater than the impulses that cause
inhibition muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to
the muscle spindles
Consistantly repeating the same pattern of motion,
Define: Pattern overload
which may place abnormal stresses on the body
States that soft tissue models along the lines of
stress. Soft tissue is remodeled with an ineleastic
What is Davis's Law?
collagen matrix that forms in a random fashion,
inhibiting tissue extensibility
What are the three Corrective, active, functional
phases of flexibility
training?
Which phase of the OPT Stabilization level
would one use
Corrective flexibility
training?
Which techniques does Self-myofascial release, static stretching
corrective flexibility
training use?
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Terms in this set (38)
The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow
agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work
Define: Neuromuscular
synergisticilly to produce, reduce, and dynamically
Efficiency
stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three plains of
motion
Define: Postural Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances
Distortion Patterns
The tendancy of the body to seek the path of least
resistance during functional movement patterns ( if
the muscles are lengthened, inelastic connective
Define: Relative flexibility tissue fibers acts as road blocks, preventing the
muscle fibers from moving properly. This causes
alterations in normal tissue extensibility and causes
Relative Flexibility)
What are the three Altered reciprocal inhibition, synergistic dominance,
causes of Muscle arthrokinematic dysfunction
imbalances?
Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and the
Define: Reciprocal
contraction of its antagonist to allow movement to
inhibition
occur.
During a bicep curl the biceps contract and as a
Give and example of
result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head
reciprocal inhibition.
relaxes (the antagonist)
, Define: Altered The concept of muscle inhibition, caused by a tight
Reciprocal inhibition agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.
What does altered It alters force couple relationships, produces
reciprocal inhibition lead synergistic dominance, and leads to the
to? development of faulty movement patterns
Define: Synergistic Occurs when synergists take over as prime movers
dominance due to weak or inhibited prime movers
altered forces at the join that result in abnormal
Define: Arthrokinetic
muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular
Dysfunction
communication at the joint
When assessing flexibility Overactive
dysfunction always
stretch the (BLANK)
muscles?
The process by which neural impulses that sense
Define: Autogenic tension are greater than the impulses that cause
inhibition muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to
the muscle spindles
Consistantly repeating the same pattern of motion,
Define: Pattern overload
which may place abnormal stresses on the body
States that soft tissue models along the lines of
stress. Soft tissue is remodeled with an ineleastic
What is Davis's Law?
collagen matrix that forms in a random fashion,
inhibiting tissue extensibility
What are the three Corrective, active, functional
phases of flexibility
training?
Which phase of the OPT Stabilization level
would one use
Corrective flexibility
training?
Which techniques does Self-myofascial release, static stretching
corrective flexibility
training use?
