What Is Resistance/Weight Training? Resistance/ weight training is any type of exercise that causes the skeletal muscles to contract and detract with the resistance of an outside force. This outside resistance can be produced in many ways‚ a few examples are: dumbbells‚ rubber exercise tubing‚ your own body weight‚ bricks‚ bottles of water‚ or any other object that causes the muscles to contract. A common name for this exercise is weight lifting. There are many different exercises that fall within
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Massage Therapy and Plantar Fasciitis Plantar fasciitis is a chronic irritation‚ tendinosis‚ and inflammation of the plantar fascia on the bottom of your foot. People complain of a sharp heel pain that is worse in the morning when getting out of bed. One person called it an "ice pick" though the foot every morning. Commonly it is less painful while someone is moving around but returns after resting. Plantar fasciitis commonly occurs in people who spend significant amounts of time standing or walking
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The career path I have chosen to pursue is physical therapy. As I was growing up‚ physical therapy was not an option I would have considered but ever since junior year‚ my love for physical therapy has grown and pretty much eliminated all other career options. I had never fully understood what a physical therapist did until I became a patient. In the beginning of my junior year I had torn my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)‚ medial cruciate ligament (MCL)‚ and medial meniscus while playing goalkeeper
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For my Interventional clinical‚ I observed a right leg femoral artery stent placement. This involved the doctor making an incision into the leg to enter the femoral artery. The procedure was performed on an operating table‚ and a surgical technologist assisted the doctor. Collaborative care with radiology was incorporated in order for the doctor to ensure placement by ultrasound and X-ray. The doctor then would insert a balloon catheter to open a narrowed vessel (angioplasty) that supplies blood
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Over the past decade‚ soccer has been becoming an even more popular sport than it once was. With this popularity though‚ comes a greater chance for injury. Most soccer-related injuries include ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears or meniscus tears‚ but there is a much more dangerous injury making up “22% of the total injuries in football” (Al-Kashmiri 189). Note‚ that in this instance‚ and many more‚ “football” is referring to the non-American term for soccer. A concussion‚ defined by Monica E
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From beginners to the maximum advanced riders‚ a snowboard helmet is an essential piece of protecting gear you can wear. While it’s miles common to interrupt or sprain a wrist or ankle or come to be with some bruises and scrapes‚ these injuries will be minor and heal over time. The maximum recovery you are looking at is a solid or in the extra severe instances‚ surgery. However‚ ahead harm can offer a multitude of problems‚ a few irreversible. A concussion‚ mind damage and paralysis are injuries
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AGONIST- Prime mover‚ the muscle responsible for producing a particular joint movement. It is responsible for the movement you see. EX- Pectoralis Major in bench press. ANTAGONIST- Opposing muscle to the prime mover that passively elongates or shortens to permit motion to occur. EX- Hamstring in leg extension SYNERGIST- Any muscle assisting the prime mover. EX- Deltoids assist the pectoralis major in bench press MEDIAL- Closer to the midline. LATERAL- Further from the midline.
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Physicians like Hippocrates and later Galenus are believed to be the first practitioners of physical therapy‚ advocating massage‚ manual therapy and hydrotherapy techniques in treating there patients back in 460 B.C. In the eighteenth century machines like gymnasticon were developed to treat gout and other diseases by way of systemic exercise of the joints‚ similar to later occurrences of physical therapy practices. The earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group
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COMBINATION ARCH BAR AND QUICK FIX AS MAXILLOMANDIBULAR FIXATION IN THE ANGLE AND SYMPHISIS FRACTURE OF MANDIBLE (CASE REPORT) Introduction Mandible is a corticocancelous bone and constitutes the strongest and most rigid component of the facial skeleton‚ second most commonly fractured bones of the face and this is directly related to its prominent and exposed position. Prevalence rates epidemiological studies for fracture mandible are between 60 and 81%1. The etiology of symphysis and parasymphysis
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Introduction The most common dislocation after a severe trauma is a glenohumeral dislocation. Overhead sports such as tennis‚ volleyball‚ and baseball are associated with glenohumeral instability. (2) These activities cause the joint to be in abduction and external rotation. Repetition of motion‚ collision‚ or falling on an outstretched arm can lead to instability and/or dislocation. The Glenohumeral joint is already prone to dislocation‚ because of it being a large head of the humerus
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