Functional Excursion
The full range of extensibility and contractility of a muscle
How can PROM be produced?
gravity
machine
another individual
another part of individual’s body
Benefits of CPM?
prevents adhesion, contractures, joint stiffness
healing incisions
quicker ROM
Active insufficiency:
when a muscle can shorten no more
Passive insufficieny:
when a muscle can no longer be elongated
When would you use PROM?
When would you use AAROM?
When would you use AROM>
Any time the patient is able to contract muscles to actively move a segment through the desired ROM
PROM does not:
Prevent muscle atrophy
Increase strength or endurance
Assist circulation to the same degree active, voluntary muscle contractions do
AROM does not
Maintain or increase strength in strong muscles
Develop skill or coordination except in the movement patterns used
Contraindications to ROM
-When motion is disruptive to the healing process
Immediately after acute tears, fractures, and surgery
When patient response or condition is life-threatening
Functional ROM
ability of structures to move or be moved to allow the presence of ROM for functional activities
Functional Mobility
ability of an individual to initiate, control, or sustain active movements of the body to perform simple to complex motor skills
Flexibility or extensibility:
ability of a muscle and other soft tissue to yield a stretch force
Contracture:
Adaptive shortening of the muscle-tendon unit and other soft tissues that cross or surround a joint that results in significant resistance to stretch, limits ROM, and may compromise functional abilities
Muscle spindle
Golgi Tendon Organ
- sensitive to tension in muscle from passive stretch or and active muscle contraction
When is stretching indicated?
Contraindications for streching
Precautions for Stretching
Therapeutic Exercise:
Systematic, planned performance of bodily movements, postures, or physical activities
Intent of therapeutic exercise:
prevent or improve impairements
enhance physical function
prevent or reduce health related risk factors
improve overall health
Balance
the ability to maintain or move the body against gravity within the available BOS without falling
Cardiopulmonary fitness
the ability to perform moderate-intensity, repetitive, total body movements over an extended period of time