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Activity & Exercise
MC Activity & Exercise Ch 37
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isotonic Exercises | Cause muscle contraction and change in muscle length ex walking, swimming, dance, jogging. |
| Isometric Exercises | Tightening or tensing of muscles w/o moving body parts. |
| Resistive Isometric | Individual contracts the muscle while pushing against a stationary object or resisting movement. |
| Antagonistic Muscles | Bring about movement at the joint. During movement the active mover muscle contracts and the antagonist relaxes. |
| Synergistic muscles | Contract to accoplish the same movement. |
| Antigravity Muscles | Involved with joint stabilization. Oppose effect of gravity permit person to maintain upright position. |
| Proprioception/Proprioceptors | Awareness of body parts and position. Proprioceptors located on nerve endings in muscles, tendons, and joints. |
| Active ROM | Client can move limbs independently. |
| Passive ROM | Nurse moves each joint in clients who are unable to perform these exercises themselves. |
| Coninuous Passive Motion | Machines used postoperatively to place joints through selective repetitive ROM. |
| syncope | fainting episode |
| gait belt | encircles clients waist and handles attached for the nurse to hold while client ambulates. |
| Cane | Keep cane on stronger side of body. Place cane forward, then move weaker leg, and then stronger leg advanced past cane. |
| Crutches | For measuring - client's height, angle of elbow flexion, and distance btn crutch pad and axilla. |
| Quad-Cane | Most support. Used when partial or complete leg paralysis or some hemiplegia. |
| Tripod Crutch Stance | Basic stance. |
| Four Point Stance | Gives gait stability but requires weiight bearing on both legs. |
| Three-point alternating | Requires client to bear all of weight on one foot. |
| Two-Point | Client moves crutch at same time as opposing leg. |
| Stairs | Modified three point stance transferring weight btn crutches to stairs. |
| Exercise and Hypertension | Low-to-moderate exercise most effective such as brisk walking or biking. |
| Exercise and COPD | Pulmonary rehabilitation most effective. |
| Exercise and Diabetes Mellitus | Important but must moniro glucose level befor and after and no injections in muscles they are to use. Perform low -moderate intensity and carry carbs. |
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