Exam 22: Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

To decrease stress on the patellofemoral joint, exercises in the open kinetic chain should be performed between ____ degrees of knee flexion.

List at least three signs and symptoms used to identify an acute injury that is in the inflammation phase of healing.

Seated rows and push-ups with a "plus" are two examples of exercises for the scapular stabilizing muscles.

The _________ muscle(s) provides compressive and inferiorly directed forces to maintain humeral congruency during arm elevation.

How long should a stretch be held to obtain plastic deformation of the tissue and enhance muscle flexibility?

You are developing an upper extremity-strengthening program for a collegiate athlete who plays a variety of sports involving overhead movements. He denies any current injury but did have symptoms of shoulder impingement 3 months earlier. Which exercise should not be emphasized during his strengthening program?

_____ is a common shoulder injury where the rotator cuff tendons are compressed between the humeral head and the acromion.

When performing the squat and dead-lift exercises, an excessive lordosis should be maintained in the lumbar spine to minimize injury risk.

Which of the following muscles are important in stabilizing the scapula?

_____ exercises involve contraction of the muscles surrounding a joint and are characterized by a linear stress pattern and fixture of the distal segment of the extremity to the ground or a supportive surface.

The position of the spine that reduces stress to the static structures of the spine and minimizes muscular effort by optimally aligning the segments in their most natural resting position is known as _____.

You begin a lower extremity strengthening program with a 30-year-old woman. During the first session, she begins to complain of anterior knee pain that she says occurs only when she is performing a squat exercise. She has no previous history of knee pain. Which of the following is not an appropriate change to make in her training?

Which of the following is not an example of a functional test?

Discuss the positive and negative effects of inflammation.

Which is true of the remodeling phase of healing?

Which of the following muscles are most important to recruit during core stabilization exercises?

The thin layer of specialized tissue covering joint surfaces in synovial joints is known as articular _____.

An athlete presents to you immediately after spraining her ankle during a plyometric training activity. Her ankle is swollen and she is having difficulty walking due to pain. Which of the following is not an appropriate immediate treatment technique for this acute injury?

Examples of objective testing to determine an injured athlete's readiness to return to sport include:

List at least three key components of an interval sport program.