PILATES ANATOMY EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔- all movement in Pilates should be continuous and fluid
- helps build endurance and stamina, encourages full body workout
- movement look effortless and graceful
- encourage flow through our centre - ✔✔flow
✔✔- a apparatus designed by Joseph Pilates
- was designed to help work the body using and system of springs and pulleys
- carefully designed in a way that, if used properly, can help prevent injuries or help
strengthen muscles of the body - ✔✔reformer
✔✔cervical vertabrae - ✔✔7
✔✔Thoracic vertabrae - ✔✔12
✔✔lumbar vertabrae - ✔✔5
✔✔Anatomical Positions - ✔✔body is upright
feet parallel
arms are hanging by the side with palms facing up
✔✔sway back - ✔✔forward head
Posteriorly tilted pelvis
hyperextended hips and knees
✔✔Lumbar Lordosis - ✔✔A spinal curve towards the front of the body
✔✔Thoracic Kyphosis - ✔✔A spinal curve towards the back of the body
✔✔forward head - ✔✔
, ✔✔flat back - ✔✔Flatten thoracic and lumber curvatures
✔✔good posture - ✔✔
✔✔Scoliosis - ✔✔C-curve or an S-curve are two examples
✔✔sagital plane - ✔✔divides body into right and left halves
flexion
extension
plantarflexion
dorsiflexion
✔✔Frontal/coronal plane - ✔✔divides the body into anterior and posterior parts
sidebending
abduction
adduction
inversion
eversion
✔✔transverse plane - ✔✔divides the body into superior and inferior parts
supination
pronation
external rotation
internal rotation
rotation
✔✔flexion - ✔✔A bending movement around a joint in a limb (as the knee or elbow) that
decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint
✔✔extension - ✔✔Straightening a body part
✔✔plantarflexion - ✔✔pointing the foot
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔flex foot
✔✔abduction - ✔✔Movement away from the midline of the body
✔✔adduction - ✔✔Movement toward the midline of the body
✔✔inversion - ✔✔scooping inward
✔✔eversion - ✔✔scoop out
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔- all movement in Pilates should be continuous and fluid
- helps build endurance and stamina, encourages full body workout
- movement look effortless and graceful
- encourage flow through our centre - ✔✔flow
✔✔- a apparatus designed by Joseph Pilates
- was designed to help work the body using and system of springs and pulleys
- carefully designed in a way that, if used properly, can help prevent injuries or help
strengthen muscles of the body - ✔✔reformer
✔✔cervical vertabrae - ✔✔7
✔✔Thoracic vertabrae - ✔✔12
✔✔lumbar vertabrae - ✔✔5
✔✔Anatomical Positions - ✔✔body is upright
feet parallel
arms are hanging by the side with palms facing up
✔✔sway back - ✔✔forward head
Posteriorly tilted pelvis
hyperextended hips and knees
✔✔Lumbar Lordosis - ✔✔A spinal curve towards the front of the body
✔✔Thoracic Kyphosis - ✔✔A spinal curve towards the back of the body
✔✔forward head - ✔✔
, ✔✔flat back - ✔✔Flatten thoracic and lumber curvatures
✔✔good posture - ✔✔
✔✔Scoliosis - ✔✔C-curve or an S-curve are two examples
✔✔sagital plane - ✔✔divides body into right and left halves
flexion
extension
plantarflexion
dorsiflexion
✔✔Frontal/coronal plane - ✔✔divides the body into anterior and posterior parts
sidebending
abduction
adduction
inversion
eversion
✔✔transverse plane - ✔✔divides the body into superior and inferior parts
supination
pronation
external rotation
internal rotation
rotation
✔✔flexion - ✔✔A bending movement around a joint in a limb (as the knee or elbow) that
decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint
✔✔extension - ✔✔Straightening a body part
✔✔plantarflexion - ✔✔pointing the foot
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔flex foot
✔✔abduction - ✔✔Movement away from the midline of the body
✔✔adduction - ✔✔Movement toward the midline of the body
✔✔inversion - ✔✔scooping inward
✔✔eversion - ✔✔scoop out
