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| the ability to move a joint or series of joints through a full unrestricted pain free ROM |
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| flexibility is dependent on 7 things |
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| joint properties, muscular properties,osseus properties,gender,genetics,age,lack of use or misuse, |
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| what joint properties is flexibility dependent on |
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| mobitity of the; joint capsul, tendons and ligs surrounding the capsul |
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| what muscular properties is flexibility dependent on |
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| resting muscle length, muscle viscosiy/stiffness, quality of the muscles tendon and or musculo tendonous unit |
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| what osseus properties is flexiblity dependent on |
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| shape,quality,configuration of the articulating surface |
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| factors limiting joint mobility |
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| pain,ossesus problems,reduced resting muscle length,altered quality of connective tissue,fatandmuscle,quality of skin |
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| what is the flexibility continum |
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| hypermobile-normal-hypomobile |
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| contractures are and are caused by |
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| highly resistive to passive streching caused by fibrosis which leads to a shortening of the tissues around a joint |
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| muscle length restrictions are generally caused by __________ ___________ positions which leads to __________ _________ |
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| habitual postural, adaptive shortening |
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| if ROM is limited or excessive what do you do |
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| stech,dont strech possible supportive device |
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| When mesuring a 2 joint muscle what do you have to do to get a full rom |
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| put one of the joints in slack |
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| occurs when muscles become longted over two jints simultaneously and do not allow further motion of the agonist |
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| reduced force productoin that occurs when a muscles attachments are very close together the muscle is contracting on the lower end of the length tension curve |
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| what is a quick test of OA joint mobility |
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| nod yes and full rotation |
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| laterally and forward flex and "say no" |
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| how can you tell if the problem is scallens or upper trap? |
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hold on to table and stabilize the clavicle =upper trap
hold onto table and stabilize 1st rib=scallenes
if it reproduces pain then be thinking those |
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| adequate thoracic kyphoisis test |
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| does not only test for thoracic kyphosis but also ab strength |
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| ho do u screen for trunk extension tightness |
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| lay flat in prone push upper body of the plinth if greater than 2 inches |
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| client in supine on plinth look at the hight of shoulders off the plinth should be no further than2 inches from the post acromion |
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supine on bed arm abducted to
120 deg-clavicular head
90 deg-sternoclavicular |
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| rhomoid middle trap flexibility |
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| flex arms to 90 deg put hands to gether and make elbows touch |
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| one arm ex rot,abd, flexion other arm int rot, add,ext |
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| in supine hooklying flex shoulder as far back aspossible if limited lats are tight |
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