Polestar Pilates Exam | Questions and
Verified Answers| Grade A+ | 100%
Correct | Latest 2025/ 2026 Update
A neutral spine alignment includes _________.
- Correct Answer - Thoracic flexion and lumbar extension
Axial elongation allows for
- Correct Answer - greater ease of movement and less risk of injury
Wolfe's Law
- Correct Answer - Our body tissues adapt to stressors applied to them
so we need to move spine in all planes of movement and combined
movements
Deep Neck stabilizer muscles (short lever neck flexors)
- Correct Answer - rectus capitus anterior & lateralis, longus capitus
Global neck flexors (long lever neck flexors)
- Correct Answer - sternocleidomastoid, scalenes
,suboccipital mm: posture head
- Correct Answer - rectus capitus posterior, oblique capitus superior and
inferior
Deep neck stabilizers' function:
- Correct Answer - proprioceptive, stiffness for anticipated load
Long lever flexors' function:
- Correct Answer - create movement direction, de/accellerate
suboccipitals' function
- Correct Answer - move head position micromovements
Trunk musculature: Rectus Abdominus
- Correct Answer - interior abs, run up and down, acc/decelerate spine
Trunk musculature: Int/ext obliques
- Correct Answer - external: hands in pockets internal: perpendicular to
ext. X
Trunk musculature: Transverse abdominus
, - Correct Answer - no direction of movement but prepares trunk for
movement of LEs, and draws in towards central axis
Trunk musculature: Erector Spinae
- Correct Answer - runs vertical, pelvic rim to lumbar spine extends spine
Trunk musculature: Latissimus Dorsi
- Correct Answer - run diagonal on back
QL, Multifidus, rotators
- Correct Answer - create stiffness based on anticipated load
Psoas
- Correct Answer - Runs from LE to spine, overactive collapses lumbar
spine. local stabilizers
Pelvic floor muscles
- Correct Answer - coccygeus, illiococcygeus, pubococcygeus:(sling)
Pubo-Analis
which obliques run like hands in pockets
- Correct Answer - External obliques
Verified Answers| Grade A+ | 100%
Correct | Latest 2025/ 2026 Update
A neutral spine alignment includes _________.
- Correct Answer - Thoracic flexion and lumbar extension
Axial elongation allows for
- Correct Answer - greater ease of movement and less risk of injury
Wolfe's Law
- Correct Answer - Our body tissues adapt to stressors applied to them
so we need to move spine in all planes of movement and combined
movements
Deep Neck stabilizer muscles (short lever neck flexors)
- Correct Answer - rectus capitus anterior & lateralis, longus capitus
Global neck flexors (long lever neck flexors)
- Correct Answer - sternocleidomastoid, scalenes
,suboccipital mm: posture head
- Correct Answer - rectus capitus posterior, oblique capitus superior and
inferior
Deep neck stabilizers' function:
- Correct Answer - proprioceptive, stiffness for anticipated load
Long lever flexors' function:
- Correct Answer - create movement direction, de/accellerate
suboccipitals' function
- Correct Answer - move head position micromovements
Trunk musculature: Rectus Abdominus
- Correct Answer - interior abs, run up and down, acc/decelerate spine
Trunk musculature: Int/ext obliques
- Correct Answer - external: hands in pockets internal: perpendicular to
ext. X
Trunk musculature: Transverse abdominus
, - Correct Answer - no direction of movement but prepares trunk for
movement of LEs, and draws in towards central axis
Trunk musculature: Erector Spinae
- Correct Answer - runs vertical, pelvic rim to lumbar spine extends spine
Trunk musculature: Latissimus Dorsi
- Correct Answer - run diagonal on back
QL, Multifidus, rotators
- Correct Answer - create stiffness based on anticipated load
Psoas
- Correct Answer - Runs from LE to spine, overactive collapses lumbar
spine. local stabilizers
Pelvic floor muscles
- Correct Answer - coccygeus, illiococcygeus, pubococcygeus:(sling)
Pubo-Analis
which obliques run like hands in pockets
- Correct Answer - External obliques
