Your Aunt Is Beginning a Structured Exercise Program and Specifically

question 41

Essay

Your aunt is beginning a structured exercise program and specifically wants to improve her flexibility through stretching.She has heard a personal trainer talk about slow static,ballistic,and PNF stretching and wants you to give her a relative comparison of these techniques.Provide a comparison of these three stretching techniques in terms of the following factors: injury risk,amount of pain,practicality,and effectiveness for increasing range of motion.

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A non-parametric test used to compare two independent samples to determine whether there is a significant difference between their distributions.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric statistical test that determines if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.

Wilcoxon Test Statistic

A non-parametric statistical measure used to compare two paired groups to assess whether their population mean ranks differ.

Level Of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically represented by alpha (α).