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Quinn, an athletic trainer, ensures that the athletes in her care stick to the preventive regimen she designed by emphasizing the benefits of the program, the control that athletes have over their health, and the importance of intending to complete the regimen. Quinn is applying

Define and describe two of the four PNF stretching techniques that was discussed in class. 

What is the main difference when administering Cyrix’s Selective Tissue Tension Testing and Manual Muscle Testing/Resistive Range of Motion? 

When you are assessing a baseball player’s upper extremity strength and stability, you have them do a push-up. While the athlete is doing the push-up, you are assessing their upper body strength, scapulothoracic stability, and core control.  

In PA, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) limits baseball pitchers to 200 pitches in a calendar week and if they pitch 76-100 pitches in a game they have to rest for 3 days till they are allowed to pitch again. This is an example of what sport injury prevention category. 

What myofascial indirect technique is considered a positional release technique that relieves pain by reducing inappropriate proprioceptive activity, which is achieved by taking the muscle away from the barrier of restriction?

When assessing an athlete, you determine their hypomobility is due to myofascial restrictions. If the athlete has myofascial restrictions, they would demonstrate with a capsular pattern. 

Which of the following is NOT an effect of muscle energy technique? 

Q3) [40 points] Consider a unity feedback system with the following transfer function:  From the Bode plot of G(s), you observe that the phase is -140◦ at ω = 2.24 rad/s, and the corresponding magnitude is −24.7 dB. Compute the gain K that will yield Mp=0.25.  Using the gain K from part (a), compute the parameter α of a lag compensator so that the steady-state error to a unit step reference input is ess = 0.02. Also determine τI such that the desired phase margin does not change too much. Does the choice of τI affect the steady-state error? 

The journal entry to record actual overhead incurred on account during the production process is: