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Bundles of muscle fibers |
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| threadlike structures that contain contractile proteins |
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| repeating contractile unit in a myofibril that goes from z-line to z-line |
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| the part of the muscle that attatches to the stationary bone |
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| the end of the muscle that attatches to the bone that is in motion |
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| motor nerve and all of the muscle fibers included |
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| "All or None" Law of muscular contraction |
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| when a motor unit is stimulated it fires 100% of it's optimal potential |
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| The process by which actin slides over the myosin |
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| a long thin protein that lies in the groove formed by the twisted shape of actin |
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| protein periodically located on the actin |
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| the electrical signal that is generated in a motor nerve |
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| the vertical lines on muscle fivers that define the boundaries of a sacromere |
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| method to identify fiber types |
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| increase in size of cells |
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| increase in number of cells |
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| the addative effects of multiple twitches |
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| the end result of summation |
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| protective mechanism for stretching |
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| protective mechanism to prevent excessive muscle contractions |
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| a team taught nutrition and physical activity program for 5th graders |
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| measures the speed of the bar |
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| autoregulatory progressive resistance exercise |
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| intentional perversion of the truth for gain |
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| may not be intentional perversion of the truth |
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| false term that was designed to prevent the competition from stealing formula recipes |
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| false term latin for buyer beware! |
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| the biological and functional capacity of the body as it should be in relation to the person's maximal potential at any given age in the lifespan |
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| the ability to perform the ordinary and unusual demands of daily living without limitations and excesive fatigue or injury |
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how many years a person is expected to live
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| conventional western medicine |
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| traditional medical practice methods that are tested through rigorous scientific trials, also called allopathic medicine |
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a medical practitioner with specialized training in musculoskeletal problems who uses diagnostic and theraputic methods of conventionalmedicine in addition to manipulative measures
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| medical specialist concerned with diseases of the eye and perscrition of corrective lenses |
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| health care practitioner trained to treat most standard cases of care |
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| Complementary and altenative medicine (CAM) |
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| a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine, also called unconventional, nonallopathic, or integrative medicine |
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| system of treatment based on minute quantities of remedies that in large amounts produce effects similar to the disease being treated |
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