NASM CES Exam Questions and Answers
1. What percentage of adults are obese in the United States?: 33.3%
2. What percentage of adolescents are obese in the United States?:
18%
3. What is the most common sport-related injury?: Ankle sprains
4. What percentage of adults are affected by low-back pain?: 80%
5. What percentage of work-related injuries involve the trunk? What
percentage of these injuries involve the low-back?: 33.3% - 60%
6. How many ACL injuries occur every year?: 80,000-100,000
7. How percentage of ACL injuries are non-contact?: 70-75%
8. Most ACL injuries occur between what two ages?: 15 – 25
9. What percentage of the general population experience shoulder
pain? And what percentage of reported shoulder pain cases persist
for at least one year?-
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, : 21% - 40%
10. What is the most common diagnosis of shoulder pain? And
what percentage does it account for reported shoulder pain?: Shoulder
impingement - 40-65%
11. Inhibit: Used to release tension, and decrease activity of overactive neuro-myofascial tissues
in the body
12. What tool is used in the inhibit phase?: Self-myofascial release (SMR)
13. Lengthen: Used to increase the extensibility, length, and range of motion of neuro-
myofascial tissues in the body
14. What tools are used in the lengthen phase?: Static stretching and
neuromuscular stretching
15. Activate: Used to re-educate and increase activation of underactive tissues
16. What tools are sued in the activate phase?: Isolated strengthening and
positional isometrics
17. Integrate: Used to re-train the collective synergistic function of all muscles through
functional progressive movements
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1. What percentage of adults are obese in the United States?: 33.3%
2. What percentage of adolescents are obese in the United States?:
18%
3. What is the most common sport-related injury?: Ankle sprains
4. What percentage of adults are affected by low-back pain?: 80%
5. What percentage of work-related injuries involve the trunk? What
percentage of these injuries involve the low-back?: 33.3% - 60%
6. How many ACL injuries occur every year?: 80,000-100,000
7. How percentage of ACL injuries are non-contact?: 70-75%
8. Most ACL injuries occur between what two ages?: 15 – 25
9. What percentage of the general population experience shoulder
pain? And what percentage of reported shoulder pain cases persist
for at least one year?-
1/
7
, : 21% - 40%
10. What is the most common diagnosis of shoulder pain? And
what percentage does it account for reported shoulder pain?: Shoulder
impingement - 40-65%
11. Inhibit: Used to release tension, and decrease activity of overactive neuro-myofascial tissues
in the body
12. What tool is used in the inhibit phase?: Self-myofascial release (SMR)
13. Lengthen: Used to increase the extensibility, length, and range of motion of neuro-
myofascial tissues in the body
14. What tools are used in the lengthen phase?: Static stretching and
neuromuscular stretching
15. Activate: Used to re-educate and increase activation of underactive tissues
16. What tools are sued in the activate phase?: Isolated strengthening and
positional isometrics
17. Integrate: Used to re-train the collective synergistic function of all muscles through
functional progressive movements
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