Stretching Index

Bradford D. Appleton

• Normal Ranges of Joint Motion: (previous chapter)

• a

• actin
• active flexibility
• active stretching
• aerobic activity
• agonists
• Alter, Judy
• Alter, Michael J.
• Anderson, Bob
• ankle, range of motion of
• antagonists
• autogenic inhibition

  b

• ballistic PNF stretching
• ballistic stretching
• Beaulieu, John E.
• benefits of stretching
• Blakey, W. Paul
• books on stretching
• butterfly stretch

  c

• chinese split
• circadian rhythms
• clasped-knife reflex
• collagen
• collagenous connective tissue
• common stretching mistakes
• concentric contraction
• connective tissue
• contract-relax, PNF stretching technique
• contract-relax-antagonist-contract, PNF stretching technique
• contract-relax-bounce, PNF stretching technique
• contract-relax-contract, PNF stretching technique
• contract-relax-swing, PNF stretching technique
• contractile proteins
• cooling down
• Cooper, Robert K.
• counting during stretching
• CRAC, PNF stretching technique
• Croce, Pat

  d

• different types of flexibility
• different types of stretching
• duration of a stretch
• Dworkis, Sam
• dynamic flexibility
• dynamic PNF stretching
• dynamic stretching
• dynamic warm-up stretching

  e

• early-morning stretching
• eccentric contraction
• elastic connective tissue
• elastin
• elbow, range of motion of
• endomysium
• epimysium
• extrafusal muscle fibers

  f

• fascia
• fascial sheaths of muscle
• fascicles
• fasciculi
• fast-twitch fibers
• fixators
• flexibility
• flexibility, factors affecting
• flexibility, limiting factors
• Frenette, Jean
• frog stretch
• front split

  

  g

• general warm-up
• golgi tendon organ
• groin and inner-thigh stretch
• Gummerson, Tony

  h

• Health for Life
• HFL
• hip, range of motion of
• hold-relax, PNF stretching technique
• hold-relax-bounce, PNF stretching technique
• hold-relax-contract, PNF stretching technique
• hold-relax-swing, PNF stretching technique

  i

• innervate
• interdependency of muscle groups
• intrafusal muscle fibers
• inverse myotatic reflex
• isolation offered by a stretch
• isometric agonist contraction/relaxation
• isometric antagonist contraction
• isometric contraction
• isometric stretching
• isotonic contraction
• Iyengar, B. K. S.

  j

• Jerome, John
• joint rotations
• joints

  k

• Kim, Sang H.
• kinetic flexibility
• knee, range of motion of
• Kurz, Tom

  l

• Lala, Marco
• lengthening reaction
• leverage offered by a stretch
• ligaments
• limiting factors of flexibility
• lower back stretches
• lumbar spine, range of motion of
• lying buttock stretch
• lying `V' stretch

  m

• McAtee, Robert E.
• mechanoreceptors
• Mehta, Shyam
• metabolic accumulation
• Mira
• mitochondria
• mobility
• mobility, factors affecting
• mucopolysaccharide
• muscle fibers
• muscle spasms
• muscle spindle
• musculoskeletal system
• myofilaments
• myofybrils
• myosin
• myotatic reflex

  

  n

• neck, range of motion of
• neuromuscular junction
• neutralizers
• nuclear bag fibers
• nuclear chain fibers

  p

• pacinian corpuscles
• passive flexibility
• passive stretching
• perimysium
• Peterson, Susan L.
• plyometrics
• PNF stretching
• post-isometric relaxation techniques
• prime movers
• proprioception
• proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
• proprioceptors
• psoas stretch

  q

• quadricep stretch

  r

• ranges of joint motion
• reciprocal inhibition
• reciprocal innervation
• references on stretching
• relaxed stretching
• relaxed warm-up stretching
• repetitions of a stretch
• respiratory pump
• risk of injury from a stretch
• runner's start

  

  s

• sarcomeres
• seated calf stretch
• seated hamstring stretch
• seated inner-thigh stretch
• seated leg stretches
• Shields, Andrew T.
• shoulder, range of motion of
• side split
• Silva
• slow-twitch fibers
• Smith, Ann
• Solveborn, Sven-A
• split-stretching machines
• sport-specific activity
• stabilizers
• static stretching
• static warm-up stretching
• static-active flexibility
• static-active stretching
• static-passive flexibility
• static-passive stretching
• Sternad & Bozdech
• stretch receptors
• stretch reflex
• stretch reflex, dynamic component
• stretch reflex, static component
• Sullivan, John Patrick
• synergism
• synergists

  t

• tendons
• Tobias, Maxine
• torn tissue
• Type 1 muscle fibers
• Type 2A muscle fibers
• Type 2B muscle fibers
• types of flexibility
• types of stretching

  v

• videotapes on stretching

  w

• warm-up stretching
• warming down
• warming up
• wrist, range of motion of

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