Educational Gymnastics : Safety And The Law

Today, we're gonna be talking about posture, specifically in children, but also in adults. When you lose your core because you haven't got any fitness, and you have haven't been exercising, you can slouch, you can walk improperly, you can hurt your hips and your back. Today, I'm gonna be using my book, Nurses on Our Own, for nurse Sally to walk with this on her head like we used to to keep from slouching. Our mother's always told us to sit up straight, and if you don't have your shoulders up straight when you use the computer or when you're bent over, or you bend your head over, it's like 30 pounds of weight on your head and on your spine. So it could be a terrible problem. Now you can use balancing, you can use trampolines, you can use all

Performed primarily in social dance clubs, salsa is a fluid and dynamic dance. The movement of the dancers originates from their hips, which move constantly throughout the dance (Sexy Salsa Dancing). This in turn leads to the dancers having a “dynamic and flexible spine, weight shifts propelled by core body movement often resulting in weight suspended between the feet, [and] flexed knees and a lower center of gravity” (Malnig 304). The

Supination - This is the opposite of pronation and occurs when the elbow joint experiences external

Spread forces over a wide area of the body putting less stress on any one part.

within the limits of the base of support, achieved by producing forces on the support surface/s. Postural control is a

worn on the upper body like a vest. The brace worn to force the person's to be aware of

If you’ve done my Baseline Balance Skills course you may recognize the wall balance component as one of the advanced variations I

Stability refers to the inherent ability of a body to remain in or return to a specific state of balance and not to fall (Pollock, Durward et al. 2000). Optimal postural control requires intact sensory motor functioning. Treating the body’s balance is detected by sensory (afferent) system, and responses through motor (efferent) system. The sensory system has information on COM motion relative to the direction of gravity for vestibular cues, visual orientation for visual cues, and support surface orientation for proprioceptive cues (Peterka 2002). While the motor system counteracts the force of gravity for preventing falling via muscle activity represented as postural control strategies. In quiet standing, the persons never truly stand still, although they try stand still. These unavoidable vertical posture changes or postural sway must be occurred as an inverted pendulum model. The body represents the fixed-support strategy e.g. the ankle and hip strategies during controlling balance, and acts the change-in-support strategy e.g. stepping or grasping strategies during loosing balance (Horak and Nashner 1986, Pollock, Durward et al.

Trampolines are a webbed netting that is usually positioned above the ground or a depression is dug into the ground under the trampoline. Trampolines are supported by metal springs around the edges. They are most popularly used in tumbling events. Gymnasts use them to perform routines. (Britannica, 2010)

The stability of an object depends on whether or not their centre of mass is over the base of support or not. Centre of mass is “a point representing the mean position of the matter in a body or system.” (google.com); the centre of mass of a person is usually located in the hip area. That is why figure skaters must always have their center of mass directly above point of support (their

While suspended at 40% unloaded, patients may begin to perform weight shifting exercises, helping develop balance and gait

This point is called the centre of gravity or the centre of mass. In an average human, the centre of gravity is located in the hip, directly below the belly button. Now when one runs forward and jumps, every parts of the body, or expressed by a physicist as only the centre of gravity with the person’s mass, will follow a projectile motion, like a parabola, in the air due to the Earth’s gravity which is independent to the mass of the

A : The next manuvre that we see is known as the straddle vaults which is like performing splits while jumping over the valting horse .

Statics is a branch of Mechanics that studies the forces and their effects in rigid bodies in balance.

A steel frame situated around a building’s core or along exterior walls offers structural support. The frame’s columns, however, are free to rock up and down within steel shoes secured at the base.