Sports massage is one of the most effective therapies for releasing muscle tension and restoring balance to the muscular skeletal system. If you have a constant build in tension in your muscles form ordinary or regular activity, this may lead to stresses
Sports massage I believe that sports massage is one of the most effective therapies for releasing muscle tension and restoring balance to the muscular skeletal system. If you have a constant build in tension in your muscles form ordinary or regular activity, this may lead to stresses on the joints, ligaments, tendons as well as muscles themselves. Sports massage is usually very specific and concentrates mainly on the area of the body that requires the attention. Some techniques that are used may feel uncomfortable and you may also experience a little discomfort afterwards until your body has settled from the treatment. All sportsmen suffer from all types of injuries throughout their careers, for example footballers and swimmers. Firstly the most common injury footballers suffer from is hamstring injury; it can be either a torn hamstring or a hamstring strain. The hamstring muscle is a group of large muscles that are found at the back of your thigh. The hamstrings function is to extend the hip joint and flex the knee joint, when you get a pulled hamstring this is a tear of the hamstring muscle fibres. Muscle tears and strains most commonly occur because of something called an eccentric contraction, this is when the muscle is trying to contract and another force is forcing in the opposite direction, this just puts on too much strain on the muscle an if it is too strong it will
Exercise health and lifestyle
Unit 7: Exercise health and lifestyle Maintenance of health and well being In the report I am going to write I will be discussing the important factors that can help you become healthy and the factors that can make you unhealthy. The lifestyle factors include . Physical activity 2. Alcohol 3. Smoking 4. Diet In recent years the heath of the UK population has gone in a downwards spiral the main reasons this is happening is due to all the technology coming out. When kids were bored in the UK about 30 years ago they would go out and play football which meant they were taking part in exercise now a days kids would rather stay in side and watch TV or play on a console. This means that kids aren't getting enough exercise like before and as kids will carry on eating the same junk they will start putting on weight. Another factor that has affected the UK health is adverts as kids spend about most of their time watching TV so any type of food that is advertised kids will automatically want to buy it. Advertising should be to show kids how to eat healthy instead all the show is sweets and fast food like McDonalds which is bad for you. Also most kids these days wont have a good health education lesson to teach them all about what foods to eat and what foods not to eat. Simply having one of these lessons once a week will help kids understand how to stay healthy and the
My Personal Warm up To raise my Heart rate, before I start stretching, I do some short, medium paced jogging and running exercises.
Warm Up A warm up should include the following steps or routines: o First of all you must raise your heart rate, increasing the speed of the of the Oxygen delivery to the muscles as well as raising the your body temperature. (This can be implemented by pursuing various types of stretching and running drills. The pre-capillary sphincters open and close, increasing and reducing the amount of blood flowing to the skeletal muscles and other organs. If you are running for several minutes, areas such as the legs and arms, including such muscles as Gastronemus, soleus and semimembranus, execute a lot of movement so these areas are specified by the Heart and is provided with excess blood to perform such activities.) o Once the muscle temperature has increased should now perform some flexibility or stretching exercises. Static and Calisthenic stretches are done to ensure that the every aspect of the muscle is tested in some way. Squat thrusts and Push-ups are a prime example of these. o The final stage of the warm-up should include a specific aspect of the sport in which you are about to play. This way the muscles in the area which are mostly used can get used to the activity and becomes acclimatised to the environment which it will have to endure. (Shooting on goal, easy tackling...) Once the warm-up has been completed and the body is ready for the action ahead. The muscles
Short and Long term effects of exercise on the body.
?Muscles contract more often and more quickly. The more you exercise the more the muscles contract. ?Increase in the flow of blood to the working muscles. During physical exercise, muscles contract and expand laterally. The intramuscular pressure exerted on the veins by the surrounding muscle pushes blood through the one-way valves of the veins, returning it to the heart. ?Muscles take up more oxygen from the blood. If you are going to be exercising for more than a few minutes, your body needs to get oxygen to the muscles or the muscles will not function. Just how much oxygen your muscles will use depends on two things: getting blood to the muscles and extracting oxygen from the blood into the muscle tissue. Your working muscles can take oxygen out of the blood three times better than your resting muscles. Your body has several ways to increase the flow of oxygen full blood to working muscle: * increase blood flow to the working muscle * diversion of blood flow from non-essential organs to the working muscle * increase flow of blood from the heart * increase rate and depth of breathing * increase unloading of oxygen from haemoglobin in working muscle ?Increase in waste products produced by the muscle. ?Rise in muscle temperature. ?A break down in muscle tissue. ?More muscle fibres contract ?Muscles increase in size (hypertrophy). Hypertrophy is the
Looking at the skeletal and muscular system and the use of this system during exercise.
AVCE Leisure and Recreation Unit 7 Assignment 7.1 As the Health, Fitness and body consultant I have put together this information pack, it will give you a detailed explanation on how the human body works, and hopefully give you an understanding of what your body is capable of. In this part of the pack I will be looking at the skeletal and muscular system and the use of this system during exercise. Skeletal System The functions of the Skeleton are to: o Provide Protection o Movement o Blood Production o Support o Shape o Mineral Production Definitions of the functions: Protection: The skeleton is designed in such a way that the delicate parts of the body are protected. These parts are major organs, the brain is protected by the skull, the lungs and heart are protected by the ribs and the vertical column protects the spinal cord. For example you will see this happen in many sports such as boxing, the skull protects the brain from impact of a punch during a fight. Support/ Shape: The skeletal system gives the human body structure. It supports the internal organs that are held within the body in a network of tissue. Bones give us form. In sports support and shape are also used for example in a rugby scum, to body needs to be placed in such a way to keep the back aligned. Movement/ Attachment: The skeleton is jointed to allow movement. A joint is an
Muscular systems
Task 1 Muscle fibres exist all over our body and they are all different on their own way even though they may seems to look all the same in diagrams we see in the books and on the internet. They vary in shape size and their functions vary to where they are in the body. Below I have placed a diagram of a singular muscle fibre. Fast Twitch Fibres: Some books define a fast twitch fibre as a fibre in that causes the myosin can split ATP very quickly. However, fast twitch fibres also demonstrate a higher capability for electrochemical transmission of action potentials and a rapid level of calcium release and uptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The fast twitch fibres rely on a well developed, short term, glycolytic system for energy transfer and can contract and develop tension at 2-3 times the rate of slow twitch fibres. Slow Twitch Fibres: The slow twitch fibres generate energy for ATP re-synthesis by means of a long term system of aerobic energy transfer. They tend to have a low activity level of ATPase, a slower speed of contraction with a less well developed glycol tic capacity. They contain large and numerous mitochondria and with the high levels of myoglobin that gives them a red pigmentation they have been demonstrated to have high concentration of mitochondrial enzymes, thus they are fatigue resistant. The 2 main categories of muscle fibres become 3 when we split
Anatomy and physiology of Voice and Speech
Learning Outcome 1 Anatomy and physiology of Voice and Speech HNC Acting and Performance Alignment ) Alignment is the way in which the body holds itself. The position of the skeletal frame which affects posture. 2) As an actor awareness of good alignment is important because it affects the way you breathe and your voice. Also it makes it easier to see what adjustments need to be made when portraying a character. 3) Cervical Thoracic Lumbar Sacrum Coccyx 4) There are various different areas that we need to look at in order to work towards a more effective alignment. An example of a good stance would be: Feet hip width apart, and parallel with each other Feet contacting the floor at the heel, the outer edge and the ball Pressing the weight down onto the feet Knees released or loose Pelvis central - not tipped to the back or front Energy rising up through the lower spine to the head Chest and ribs open Shoulders open and free, hanging arms with space under the armpits Head lightly balancing on the top of the spine not tipped forward or back 5) Without good body and spinal alignment breathing isn't as efficient and the voice will collapse. Good alignment opens the voice and creates more resonance. 6) To develop awareness of habitual alignment you could use mirrors,
Review the known and potential causes of osteoarthritis of the limb joint(s) and treatments available now or in the future to impede its progress.
Review the known and potential causes of osteoarthritis of the limb joint(s) and treatments available now or in the future to impede its progress. Bones are joined together by joints, which allow varying degrees of movement between the adjacent bone ends; some joints permit considerable movement, others allowing only limited movement. The most important type of joint that permits considerable movement is the synovial joint. A strong joint capsule and an enclosing ligament, assisted by attached muscles and tendons, limit excessive movement at the joint. In joints in which there is only limited movement the bones are joined by a fibrous or cartilaginous tissue. This is the typical joint that will be damaged in osteoarthritis in the limb. Osteoarthritis is also called degenerative joint disease. It is the most common type of joint disease and millions of dollars are spent each year for its treatment. It is characterized by the progressive erosion of articular cartilage. The term osteoarthritis implies a role of inflammation in its pathogenesis, considered to be a disease of cartilage. It is the narrowing of the joint space, which represent the loss of articular cartilage. This in return will increase the thickness of the subchondral bone which forms bone cysts. This large peripheral growths of bone and cartilage called osteophytes, which represent the bones attempt to grow a
Sprained ankle rehabilitation
Sports Injuries Sprained ankle - of a football player Phase 1- the first thing to do when an athlete sprains an ankle is to make sure any footwear is not removed and that they do not attempt to put weight on the ankle as this could just make the injury worse. SALTAPS is a protocol that would help diagnose and treat the injury. It should be used as soon as the injury has happened See - the injury occur, look at the mechanism of the injury. Ask - the player what is wrong, where they are injured, where the pain is and how it happened. Look - at the injury, and look for redness, deformity, bleeding or inflammation. Touch - the injury or area around injury to see if you can feel heat, ask the injured person If thy feel pain or any other sensations. Active Movement - see if the injured person can move the injured area Passive Movement - try to move the injured area Strength - if both passive and active movements are performed with no pain try a resistance movement to see if any pain occurs. If any bleeding has occurred covering and compressing the cut with a sterile cloth/bandage must treat this. The RICE protocol should now be used: REST - the injured part immediately, this will stop the injury be further aggravated and there will be more pain if this is the case ICE - the injured area should be cooled, using something such as a cold compress or freeze spray,
I will be researching the two skeleton structures and the bones which they contain. The different categories of bone articulation and all about the joints in the body
During this assignment I will be researching the two skeleton structures and the bones which they contain. The different categories of bone articulation and all about the joints in the body. I will also be looking into joint and bone homeostatic imbalances which a world class female gymnast is likely to suffer from at some point in her life. The skeleton is split into two structures, the Axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. Axial skeleton: The Axial skeleton supports the main part of the body and protects the vital organs. There are many different bones; the main ones in the Axial skeleton include: * Cranium, facial bones and mandible. * Vertebral column, lumbar vertebrae. * Ribs * Sternum * Atlas Appendicular skeleton: The Appedicular skeleton supports the limbs and attaches them to the rest of the body. The main bones in the Appedicular skeleton include: * Humorous, radius, ulna. * Planges, meta-carples, carples, Meta tarsels, tarsels. * Femur, patella, tibia, fibula. * Clavicle, scapula, pelvic girdle There are five different categories of bones which are designed to carry out a variety of specific functions. Long bones-cylindrical in shape and found in the limbs of the body, eg femur, tibia, humerous, phalanges (not long but cylindrical). Short bones- small and compact in nature, often equal in length and width. Designed for strength and weight