Across
- 3. a more advanced form of flexibility training, which involves both the stretching and contracting of the muscle group being targeted.
- 4. Law which states that soft tissue will heal according to the stresses that are placed on them.
- 7. Protection, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression, Elevation.
- 10. a type of exercise that keeps the muscles at the same tension throughout the movement
- 11. therapeutic device that uses high frequency soundwaves to create heat and energy in the tissue to increase circulation, decrease pain, increase flexibility, and speed healing.
- 14. sensory mechanoreceptors located within tendons. They play a role in the management of muscle tension.
- 16. a general phenomenon in which the stretch of one muscle inhibits the activity of the opposing muscle.
- 18. kinetic chain exercise in which the part furthest from the body (hand or feet)is fixed to an object.
- 19. The R in the PRICE protocol for injury.
- 20. abbreviation used by therapists to describe muscle testing.
Down
- 1. also known as kinesthesia, is your body's ability to sense movement, action, and location.
- 2. Law which states that bone will adapt to the stresses that are placed upon it.
- 5. type of ROM in which you move your joint using your own muscles.
- 6. kinetic chain exercise in which just one joint is moved and one group of muscles are targeted.
- 8. device or procedure that administers thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic and/or light energies for therapeutic purposes.
- 9. stretch receptors that signal the length and changes in length of muscles.
- 12. type of ROM in which your joint is moved by someone or something else without your muscles being activated.
- 13. Second phase of rehab.
- 15. type of strengthening exercise in which a special machine is used to create a constant speed of motion with variable force.
- 17. an exercise involving the static contraction of a muscle without any visible movement in the angle of the joint.