Andrew GarziaDr. UygurKinesiology14 September 2014

Kinesiology Movement Analysis

Health Review

Name: Andrew Garzia___________________

Address:______________________________

DOB: 09/01/1994_______________________ Sex (circle one): Female Male

Background1. Ethnicity (circle one):

White Black Hispanic

Asian/Pacific Islander Other:___________________

2. Height: 5’ 8” ___________________

Weight: 180 lbs . __________________

3. Marital Status(Circle One):

Single Married Divorced

Separated Widowed

Physical History1. List any sports that have you have played and list the number of years

played:

Baseball (1 Year) _____________ Soccer (12 years)__________

___________________________ ________________________

___________________________ ________________________

2. Have you ever attained an injury resulting in surgery? If so, list them.

N/A

3. List any other injuries or anything that would limit mobility.

Golfer’s Elbow _____________________________________________________

Movement Goal

My movement goal is to overall become more flexible and stronger in weaker areas, such as the lower extremity .

Initial Summary

I used to be to play soccer, so I know drills and stretches that will help me with the basic muscles, such as the quadriceps and hamstrings that will help overactive muscle areas. Also, I know drills that would strengthen the knee joint eccentrically, being a former goalie.

Range of Motion Assessment

(Sit and Reach on the Sagittal Plane)

(Cervical Lateral Flexion on the Tranverse Plane)

(Cervical Lateral Flexion at Tranverse plane) (Anatomical Stance at Sagittal Plane)

(Cervical Flexion and Extension on Sagittal Plane)

(Cervical Lateral Flexion view on the Frontal Plane)

(Cervical Lateral Flexion on Frontal Plane) (Neutral Position from Sagittal View)

(Shoulder Flexion on Sagittal Plane)

(Shoulder Flexion from Sagittal View)

(Shoulder Flexion from Frontal View)

(Shoulder External Rotation at Sagittal View)

(Shoulder Internal Rotation at Sagittal view)

(Shoulder Internal Rotation at Sagittal view)

(Hip Flexion from Sagittal view)

(Hip flexion at a Sagittal View)

(Hip Internal Rotation From Frontal View)

(Hip Internal Rotation at Frontal View) (Hip External Rotation at Frontal View)

(Hip External Rotation at Frontal View)

(Straight leg raise at Sagittal view)

(Thomas Test at Sagittal View)

Summary: For the most part, I personally felt that I had difficulty completing most of the lower extremity tests. This is due to the fact that I do not use them for much exercise, nor do I stretch them out. On top of this, my dominant leg is the right leg, so my left leg was no as flexible as my right leg. To kill two birds with one stone, I need to stretch and exercise everything from hamstrings to quadriceps to gluteus medius, to prevent injury and attaining my overall goal of achieving strength and flexibility.

Overhead Squat Analysis

Summary: Due to a weakness in the lower extremity overall, I saw poor results in my overhead squat analysis. The form was adequate, but as you can tell from the pictures that the angle at which knee flexion is occurring is slightly more than 90°. This results in insufficiently exercising glutes and hamstrings. Also, another issue that I found is that my feet are pronated in the picture. By the position of the patella on each leg, it seems that my biceps femoris are overactive, causing not only my feet to pronate, but my whole leg to externally rotate. A simple fix would be

strengthening my gluteus medius, that will not only prevent external rotation of my leg, but also help prevent ACL injury.

Gait Analysis

Summary: In sequential order, the pictures go from heel strike, midstance, and toe off. From the sagittal view, you can tell that my heel strike is in front of my body too far to result in counter productivity. A simple solution is to lean forward slightly to have my legs under my body more, resulting in using less energy as well. Also, another area that needs notice is during the swing phase, I noticed in the video that I was pushing up more than forward. This was due to the positioning of my body as well, and is wasting energy because I am coming off the ground more than proper gait form should. Shifting my weight forward would also help to target my quadriceps, which is a point of weakness and help reach my overall goal of increase flexibility and strength.

Andrew GarziaKinesiologyDr. U11/24/14

Corrective Analysis

Straight Leg Dead Lift(Start and End) Straight Leg Dead Lift (Mid Phase)

Quadriceps Stretch/”Flamingo”(Start/End) Quadriceps/“Flamingo” (Mid Phase)

Summary: I chose these stretches and exercises because I have very tight hamstrings. I used to play soccer and was very strong in the lower body department. Strengthening my hamstrings would overall help my strength, and on top of that I do not do large amount of exercises focusing on my hamstrings. I also used the quadriceps stretch “flamingo” because my quads are in fact very tight due to the fact that I constantly have cramping and Charlie horse incidents. With stretching, and eventually strengthening, I believe I will be able to get rid of this problem.

Lower Extremity

(Neutral Position) (Midphase)

Summary: After learning that hamstrings are an essential muscle that protects the ACL, I want to put more emphasis on my hamstrings. Romanian deadlifts are a type of lower exercise that tests the strength of the hamstrings. Merely performing the exercise without weights, I could feel the sensation in my hamstrings. Still working on stretching out my biceps femoris, my feet are pronated, and without flexion at the knee I do not need to worry about my knee passing my toes.

Student’s Reflection on the Kinesiology Project and Text

An important component to any signature assignment in a course is the student’s reflection on the value of that assignment. The following questions will allow you an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the project and the text. This will be used to provide Dr. Uygur with feedback which he will use to modify this assignment and text for the future. You will not be graded based on the positive or negative feedback provided, both are encouraged, but rather just on the quality and detail of your responses. Please save this document to your computer and then fill in your responses between each question.

1. Discuss what you see as the purpose of the project? Why do you think this particular project was implemented into this course? Explain. The purpose of the project was to not only teach us about the mechanics of the body, but doing the movement analysis was a hands on learning experience to learn how different muscles work. Also, the purpose of the project was to show what we, as students, need to improve in our mechanics to be effective not efficient.

2. Was the project timely? Meaning, were the individual components of the project performed relatively close to when the material was covered in lecture? Did performing the components of the project help you to learn the information in lecture? Explain.I believe the components of the project were very timely. Our class times were Tuesday and Thursday, giving us from Thursday to the end of the Sunday to complete the assignment. Personally, learning the material and then doing the assignment helped me learn the material better, in that order.

3. Was this project relevant to your field of study and if so how do you see that this project influenced what you do or can do in your career? Explain.This project was relevant to my field. I am planning to become a physical therapist and this project helped me because it showed that I was not completely correct in form, due to tight muscles and over activity. Also, being taught to look for certain signs could help save a client from a terrible injury.

4. Were there any parts of the project that you found useful outside of the course at the time you performed the activities? Were you able to use the information learned from the project in your everyday life? Explain.I was able to use the project outside of class. I exercise regularly at the Rowan gym on a daily basis and my friend had an issue when we were clean pressing. His feet were pronating and I found out that he had the same issue over active biceps femoris, like me, which I learned from the project.

5. Were you able to share what you learned from the project with friends, family, fellow students or employees outside of the information needed for this course? Explain.Yes, to the point they cannot shut me up. One of my roommates and my friend are two people I lift with regularly and I am constantly informing them on form when exercising

and from learning different stretches for each part of the project, I was able to pass on the info to my frineds.

6. Were you provided sufficient information and materials to perform each component of the project? Explain.Yes, I used all the powerpoints to help me out, when I did not have the knowledge myself. Also, the book helped with illustrations for exercises and stretches.

7. Was the project graded fairly? Did it help provide you with an alternative way of being assessed beyond traditional testing and did it fairly assess your knowledge and skills? Explain.Yes, the project was graded fairly, I personally liked the feedback because I like learning on how to improve. Not only improving, but looking at a situation at different perspectives.

8. What would you like to see added, subtracted, or modified in the project for future students?I think the corrective exercise portion was not needed. I believe that this course was stressing the importance of corrective exercising in of itself, so it was just overdoing it.

9. Provide feedback on the text used in the class. Was it useful, if so how? Did it support the lectures and help with the project, if so how? I personally used the textbook for its illustrations. It was very complimentary to the slides, and helped with looking at different stretches to help for the project.

10. In the next edition of the text, what things would you like to see added, taken out, or modified?Added to the text I would like to see a layout in the back of each chapter the muscles and insertions and actions that it does, that way it helps with reviewing over muscles.