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According to ACSM guidelines, for healthy but untrained individuals, maximal improvements in strength are observed with mean training intensities of _____% or greater, although improvements in strength have been observed at levels as low as _____%.  

Calculating heart rate reserve is a more appropriate method of calculating aerobic exercise intensity than calculating heart rate maximum because it takes into account age and resting heart rate.

Contemporary research clearly indicates that the duration of stretching should exceed 30 seconds.

A post-ACL reconstruction rehabilitation protocol includes “quadricep sets” during the acute phase of tissue healing. This exercise is an example of which type of muscle contraction?

Your therapeutic goal is to improve proprioception and kinesthesia in a lower extremity weight bearing position. Which type of exercise training for the lower extremity is most appropriate?

After 3 weeks of training, you decide the patient has greatly increased strength and would like to recalculate the intensity of his resistance training. Besides 1-RM calculation, name one other method you can use to continue to progress the patient’s resistance exercise intensity.

When performing passive range of motion with gentle stretching at end range, it is important only to perform techniques within the anatomic cardinal planes of motion.

What type of connective tissue fibers are responsible for tissue stiffness and resist tensile deformation?

    You notice your clinical instructor placing their hand on the front of the patient’s pelvis while manually stretching  hip internal rotation. Which component of stretching are they most likely addressing with their hand placement?    

Match the theory below with the appropriate description.