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 * WRITE ALL OF YOUR RESPONSES ON YOUR PERSONAL WEBPAGE UNDER A HEADING ENTITLED //UNIT 5 Reading//**

Guided Reading Questions 1-3 are based on the following website: []

Question 1: Describe in detail how muscle strain is caused, giving specific examples (other than the example of football which is given in the article) Question 2: Describe the steps that you need to treat a muscle strain Question 3: Describe the site of common muscular injuries and some of the steps that you can take to reduce the occurrence of injury at this site.

Guided Reading Questions 4-8 are based on the following document:

Question 4: What are the differences between applying heat and applying cold compress? Question 5: How is medication used to manage the treatment of joint pain? Question 6: What are the symptoms of muscle pain? Question 7: What are the causes and risk factors or joint, muscle and tendon pain? Question 8: Which of the 'alternative' treatment therapies do you think might be quite effective? Why?

Question 9-11 are based on the following document:

Question 9: Explain the statement "you cannot just touch your toes and think you are fit to play" with relation to this article Question 10: Based on this article, is there evidence to support the need for warming up? Question 11: What does the article give as a reason why we warm up?

Questions 12-14 are based on the following website:

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Question 12: Define the term 'Sliding filament theory' Question 13: Define the terms myofibril, sarcomere, myosin, actin, tropomyosin, troponin in your own words (do not copy paste from the site!) Question 14: Summarize the steps which happen during a muscle contraction