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Panacea  A cure-all; a remedy for all ills.
Passive Exercise  Exercise in which no voluntary muscle contraction occurs; an outside force moves the body part with no effort by the person.
Tonus  The most frequently misused and abused term in fitness vocabularies. Tonus is the tension developed in a muscle as a result of passive muscle stretch. Tonus can not be determined by feeling or inspecting a muscle. It has little or nothing to do with the strength of a muscle







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