ISSA Corrective Exercise Final Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions
2025
Tendons and ligaments are similar because they both have: - ✔✔A limited blood supply and low
metabolism
What is the name of the outer layer of connective tissue on skeletal muscle? - ✔✔Epimysium
The functional units of skeletal muscle that allow it shorten are: - ✔✔Sarcomeres
In terms of muscle actions at the knee joint, the quadriceps and hamstrings are: - ✔✔antagonists
Skeletal muscle shortens when: - ✔✔actin and myosin bind and slide past each other
A muscular force-couple occurs when: - ✔✔two or more muscles concurrently produce force in different
directions to produce one movement
When lifting the arm overhead, impingement of the subacromial space is avoided when: - ✔✔a
muscular force-couple occurs between the deltoid and supraspinatus
During a squat, your client's knees buckle inward as she ascends. This problem is most likely due to: -
✔✔weakness of the hip abductors and external rotator
After a workout, your client mentions that he feels a deep, nervy pain in his shoulder that radiates down
to his hand. You first course of action should be to: - ✔✔tell him to get cleared from a physician or
physical therapist before your next workout
Your new client mentions that he has left shoulder pain when pressing a 50-pound dumbbell overhead.
During your initial movement assessment, what is the most acceptable first step? - ✔✔Instruct him to
mimic the left shoulder movement without any weight in hand
, When a client with right shoulder pain has been cleared to exercise, which of the following steps comes
earliest in the corrective exercise process? - ✔✔Assess whether or not the client can perform
diaphragmatic breathing
Your client, Steve, who you haven't trained in 6 weeks calls to schedule a session with you. During the
call he mentions that he's been losing weight without a change to his diet, he's been having night
sweats, and recently had a fever. You should: - ✔✔tell him to get cleared from his physician before
scheduling a workout with you
The purpose(s) of diaphragmatic breathing is to help your client: - ✔✔achieve a state of low stress and
improve ribcage alignment
What is one primary difference between an upper motor neuron and a lower motor neuron? - ✔✔All
upper motor neurons are closer to the brain
Your new client, John, has 3/10 right shoulder pain at rest. Last week he was cleared to exercise by his
physician. After you take him through the first set of a shoulder corrective exercise, he tells you the right
shoulder pain has increased to 6/10. What is the next recommended step? - ✔✔Move on to the next
corrective exercise and see if it helps since he's been recently cleared to exercise
Your client, Sarah, was cleared to exercise 6 weeks ago. She shows up to a workout with you today and
you notice that she's limping. She mentions that she twisted her knee playing soccer over the weekend
but was hoping your corrective exercises could help her. You should: - ✔✔explain that she needs to get
cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you
Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system? - ✔✔Provide interconnectedness
throughout the body
Your client, Ryan, starting jogging recently and he informs you that his right IT band has been feeling
stiff. He also mentions that his right knee tends to buckle inward when climbing stairs. Which corrective
exercise is likely to decrease his IT band stiffness and reduce inward buckling of the right knee? -
✔✔Lateral step with a mini band
The two primary roles of fascia are to: - ✔✔Provide interconnectedness throughout the body, and
enhance proprioception
2025
Tendons and ligaments are similar because they both have: - ✔✔A limited blood supply and low
metabolism
What is the name of the outer layer of connective tissue on skeletal muscle? - ✔✔Epimysium
The functional units of skeletal muscle that allow it shorten are: - ✔✔Sarcomeres
In terms of muscle actions at the knee joint, the quadriceps and hamstrings are: - ✔✔antagonists
Skeletal muscle shortens when: - ✔✔actin and myosin bind and slide past each other
A muscular force-couple occurs when: - ✔✔two or more muscles concurrently produce force in different
directions to produce one movement
When lifting the arm overhead, impingement of the subacromial space is avoided when: - ✔✔a
muscular force-couple occurs between the deltoid and supraspinatus
During a squat, your client's knees buckle inward as she ascends. This problem is most likely due to: -
✔✔weakness of the hip abductors and external rotator
After a workout, your client mentions that he feels a deep, nervy pain in his shoulder that radiates down
to his hand. You first course of action should be to: - ✔✔tell him to get cleared from a physician or
physical therapist before your next workout
Your new client mentions that he has left shoulder pain when pressing a 50-pound dumbbell overhead.
During your initial movement assessment, what is the most acceptable first step? - ✔✔Instruct him to
mimic the left shoulder movement without any weight in hand
, When a client with right shoulder pain has been cleared to exercise, which of the following steps comes
earliest in the corrective exercise process? - ✔✔Assess whether or not the client can perform
diaphragmatic breathing
Your client, Steve, who you haven't trained in 6 weeks calls to schedule a session with you. During the
call he mentions that he's been losing weight without a change to his diet, he's been having night
sweats, and recently had a fever. You should: - ✔✔tell him to get cleared from his physician before
scheduling a workout with you
The purpose(s) of diaphragmatic breathing is to help your client: - ✔✔achieve a state of low stress and
improve ribcage alignment
What is one primary difference between an upper motor neuron and a lower motor neuron? - ✔✔All
upper motor neurons are closer to the brain
Your new client, John, has 3/10 right shoulder pain at rest. Last week he was cleared to exercise by his
physician. After you take him through the first set of a shoulder corrective exercise, he tells you the right
shoulder pain has increased to 6/10. What is the next recommended step? - ✔✔Move on to the next
corrective exercise and see if it helps since he's been recently cleared to exercise
Your client, Sarah, was cleared to exercise 6 weeks ago. She shows up to a workout with you today and
you notice that she's limping. She mentions that she twisted her knee playing soccer over the weekend
but was hoping your corrective exercises could help her. You should: - ✔✔explain that she needs to get
cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you
Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system? - ✔✔Provide interconnectedness
throughout the body
Your client, Ryan, starting jogging recently and he informs you that his right IT band has been feeling
stiff. He also mentions that his right knee tends to buckle inward when climbing stairs. Which corrective
exercise is likely to decrease his IT band stiffness and reduce inward buckling of the right knee? -
✔✔Lateral step with a mini band
The two primary roles of fascia are to: - ✔✔Provide interconnectedness throughout the body, and
enhance proprioception
