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This document discusses the advantages of free exercise and assisted exercise. It notes that free exercise provides relaxation, joint mobility, neuromuscular coordination, and improves circulation and respiration. Assisted exercise is useful when muscle strength or coordination is inadequate, by applying an external force to augment weak muscular action in the direction of muscle movement. The assisting force should only help, not substitute for, maximal muscular effort and should decrease as muscle power increases.

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3 Advantage of Free Ex 3

This document discusses the advantages of free exercise and assisted exercise. It notes that free exercise provides relaxation, joint mobility, neuromuscular coordination, and improves circulation and respiration. Assisted exercise is useful when muscle strength or coordination is inadequate, by applying an external force to augment weak muscular action in the direction of muscle movement. The assisting force should only help, not substitute for, maximal muscular effort and should decrease as muscle power increases.

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Instructor: Dr.

M Farrukh Shahzad
Ms Health Management
2nd semester Lesson 1
KINESIOLOGY 2 CREDIT H. 3
ADVANTAGES FREE EXERCISE
 Relaxation: Rhythmic swinging
movements can relax hypertonic
muscles
 Reciprocal relaxation of opposing
muscles groups
 Joint Mobility: Full range achieved
 Neuromuscular co-ordination:
repetitions of exercise
 Confidence
ADVANTAGES FREE EXERCISE
 Circulatory and respiratory co operation
 During vigorous exercise, speed and depth
of respiration increases
 Increase in heart beat and heat production
 In light exercises these changes are not
noticeable
 Needs of active tissues, active tissues
require a free supply of oxygenated blood
and removal of metabolic waste products
to enable to continue activity
ADVANTAGES FREE EXERCISE
 Preparation for activity, cerebral cortex
incites muscular contraction, also
prepares body to supply tissues concerned
 Respiratory, cardiac and vaso motor
centres which form part of the autonomic
nervous system
 Sympathetic fibres convey impulses to the
appropriate organs which with help of
adrenaline release them into blood stream
ADVANTAGES FREE EXERCISE
 Local and circulatory changes in
muscles
 Exercise, capillaries dilate and working
muscles dilate increasing permeability
 Closed capillaries open up
 Blood floes and the capacity for
muscles to contain blood increase
 Changes can occurs as a result of
anticipation of exercise such as in
competitive sports
ADVANTAGES FREE EXERCISE
 Respiratory and circulatory changes
 Venous return to heart increases during
exercises
 Increase in cardiac output
 Muscular contraction increase carbon
dioxide and temperature in blood these
factors stimulate circulatory and
respiratory systems
 Assisted exercise
 Assisted-resisted exercises
ASSISTED EXERCISE
 When muscle strength or co-ordination
is inadequate to perform a movement
an external force is applied to
compensate for the deficiency.
PRINCIPLES OF ASSISTANCE
 When the muscular action is insufficient for the
production or the control of the movement an external
force is added to augment it.
 External force must be applied in the direction of the
muscle action.
 It is not necessary to apply the force at the same point
where the muscle is acting to gain the advantage of the
lever system (by increasing leverage).
 Magnitude of the assisted force should only to augment
muscular action not to be used as substitute.
 As power of the muscle increases the assistance should
be decreased accordingly.
TECHNIQUE
 Ensure that the inefficient muscle
exerting its maximal effort to produce
movement under condition designed to
facilitate/augment their action.
 Assisting force should only augment
the maximal effort not to act like a
substitute to it.
TECHNIQUE
 Starting position
 Instruction/ pattern of the movement
 Fixation
 Support
 The antagonist muscles
 Traction: preliminary stretching of the
weak muscle to elicit the stretch reflex
provides a powerful stimulus for
contraction.
 7. Assisting force
 8. Character of the movement
 9. Repetition of the exercise
 10. Co-operation of the patient
EFFECTS AND USES
1. Working muscle co-operate in the production of
the movement which they would be unable to
achieve unaided.
2. The assisting force should be complimentary
and maximum utilization of the force of the
working muscle.
3. The memory of the pattern of the co-ordinated
movement is stimulated.
4. Confidence in the ability to move is established.
5. Range off effective joint movement is increased.

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