Pilates Anatomy Basi Exam Questions with correct Answers

Pilates Anatomy Basi Exam Questions with correct Answers Median plane - Answer ️️ -Dividing the body into right and left halves Sagittal Plane - Answer ️️ -Dividing the body into unequal right and left portions Coronal Plane - Answer ️️ -Dividing the body into front and back portions Transverse Plane - Answer ️️ -Dividing the body into upper and lower portions 10 Pilates Principles - Answer ️️ -Awareness, Balance, Control, Efficiency, Precision, Breath, Concentration, Center, Flow, Harmony Synovial Joint - Answer ️️ -Freely moving joint. ie: hip, shoulder etc. Fibrous Joint - Answer ️️ -Immovable joint. Ie: skull bones (connected by dense tissue) Flexion - Answer ️️ -movement in an anterior direction for the upper extremities and hip joint and movement in a posterior direction for the lower extremities Extension - Answer ️️ -movement in the direction opposite to flexion Hyperextension - Answer ️️ -excessive movement/position in the direction of extension e.g. knees, lumbar and cervical curvatures of the spine Abduction - Answer ️️ -movement away from the mid-sagittal plane Adduction - Answer ️️ -movement towards the mid-sagittal plane Lateral Flexion - Answer ️️ -(of the spine) side bending of the trunk to the right or left. lateral movement of the head, neck, and trunk in the coronal plane and around the sagittal axis Multi directional - Glilding - Answer ️️ -flat or curved surfaces articulating on one another. ie: scapula Circumduction - Answer ️️ -combination of flexion, abduction, extension and adduction . ie: leg circles Rotation - Answer ️️ -Turning around the long axis of a bone Tilt - Answer ️️ -anterior tilt, posterior tilt and lateral tilt (equates to lateral flexion) Planter flexion - Answer ️️ -pointing of the foot dorsi flexion - Answer ️️ -flexing on the foot Cartilaginous Joints - Answer ️️ -slightly movable - ie: sacroiliac joint Categories of Synovial Joints - Answer ️️ -Gliding Joints (clavicle-scapula) Ball and socket joint (hip, shoulder) hinge joint (knee, elbow, ankle) pivot joint (atlas-axis, pivot w/ head) condyloid joint (metacarpals-phalangeal/fingers) saddle joint (carpal-metacarpal/thumb) Anterior/Ventral - Answer ️️ -Front side/in front of Posterior/Dorsal - Answer ️️ -Backside/ in back of Medial - Answer ️️ -Closer to the median plane/toward midline Sagittal Axis - Answer ️️ -Extends from font to back and abduction-adduction occurs around it Coronal Axis - Answer ️️ -Extends from side to side/flexion-extension occurs around it Longitudinal axis - Answer ️️ -top to bottom/medial-lateral rotation occurs around it Anatomical Position - Answer ️️ -Standing with arms down by side and palms facing forward Neutral Pelvis - Answer ️️ -The position of the pelvis when the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) on each side of the pelvis and pubic symphysis (PS), are in the same horizontal plane (coronal plane when erect) and the two ASIS are in the same transverse plane. Neutral Spine - Answer ️️ -natural curves of the spine are present Anterior Tilt - Answer ️️ -ASIS in front of PS Posterior Tilt - Answer ️️ -ASIS behind PS (tuck) ASIS - Answer ️️ -Anterior superior iliac spine - hip bones Pubic Symphysis (PS) - Answer ️️ -Disk of cartilage connects pubics of both sides together. Muscles groups that act on the pelvic complex - Answer ️️ -Spinal flexors Spinal extensors Hip flexors Hip adductors Hip external rotato