National Pilates Certification
Practice QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | A+
GRADED 100% VERIFIED
• elastic cartilage . Answer: cartilage with abundant elastic fibers; more
flexible than hyaline cartilage. EARS
• fibro cartilage . Answer: JOINTS/LIGAMENTS
• Ligaments . Answer: Connect bone to bone
• Tendon . Answer: Connects muscle to bone
• fascia . Answer: a band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue that
covers, supports, and separates muscle. CONNECTIVE TISSUE
HOLDING ORGANS, BLOOD VESSEL, NERVE FIBER, MUSCLES
IN PLACE
• Muscle functions . Answer: producing movement, maintaining posture,
stabilizing joints, generating heat
• MUSCLE FUNCTION AGAINST . Answer: MUSCLE DOING
WORK
• MUSCLE FUNCTION ANTAGONISTS . Answer: DOES OPPOSITE
ACTION. EX: GLUE MAX AGAINST FLEXORS
• SYNERGIST . Answer: MUSCLES THAT WORK TOGETHER
• muscle contraction . Answer: the tensioning of the muscle during
shortening (concentric), lengthening (eccentric), or no motion
(isometric)
, • CONCENTRIC . Answer: BICEP CURL - MUSCLE SHORTENED
• ESSENTRIC . Answer: LOWERING BICEP CURL. MUSCLE
LENGTHENED
• lordosis . Answer: abnormal anterior curvature of the lumbar spine
(sway-back condition)
• kyphosis . Answer: excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing
hunching of the back. HUNCHBACK
• Swayback . Answer: common term for lordosis
• Hyperlordosis . Answer: exaggerated anterior lumbar curvature
(swayback)
• scolisis . Answer: abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
• Cobb angle . Answer: Measured to define scoliosis. > 10° is needed for
dx.
• vargus deformity . Answer: BOWLEGGED
• vulgus and varus . Answer: a deformity involving oblique
displacement of part of a limb away from the midline.
• Valgus . Answer: Outward angulation of the distal segment of a bone
or joint, as in knock-knees (TIP: VALGUM)
• anterior cruciate ligament . Answer: A ligament in the knee that
attaches to the anterior aspect of the tibial plateau. restricting anterior
movement of the tibia on the femur
• ACL INJURY . Answer: 10 WEEK PT, NO FEET IN STRAPS OR
LEG SPRINGS
Practice QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | A+
GRADED 100% VERIFIED
• elastic cartilage . Answer: cartilage with abundant elastic fibers; more
flexible than hyaline cartilage. EARS
• fibro cartilage . Answer: JOINTS/LIGAMENTS
• Ligaments . Answer: Connect bone to bone
• Tendon . Answer: Connects muscle to bone
• fascia . Answer: a band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue that
covers, supports, and separates muscle. CONNECTIVE TISSUE
HOLDING ORGANS, BLOOD VESSEL, NERVE FIBER, MUSCLES
IN PLACE
• Muscle functions . Answer: producing movement, maintaining posture,
stabilizing joints, generating heat
• MUSCLE FUNCTION AGAINST . Answer: MUSCLE DOING
WORK
• MUSCLE FUNCTION ANTAGONISTS . Answer: DOES OPPOSITE
ACTION. EX: GLUE MAX AGAINST FLEXORS
• SYNERGIST . Answer: MUSCLES THAT WORK TOGETHER
• muscle contraction . Answer: the tensioning of the muscle during
shortening (concentric), lengthening (eccentric), or no motion
(isometric)
, • CONCENTRIC . Answer: BICEP CURL - MUSCLE SHORTENED
• ESSENTRIC . Answer: LOWERING BICEP CURL. MUSCLE
LENGTHENED
• lordosis . Answer: abnormal anterior curvature of the lumbar spine
(sway-back condition)
• kyphosis . Answer: excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing
hunching of the back. HUNCHBACK
• Swayback . Answer: common term for lordosis
• Hyperlordosis . Answer: exaggerated anterior lumbar curvature
(swayback)
• scolisis . Answer: abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
• Cobb angle . Answer: Measured to define scoliosis. > 10° is needed for
dx.
• vargus deformity . Answer: BOWLEGGED
• vulgus and varus . Answer: a deformity involving oblique
displacement of part of a limb away from the midline.
• Valgus . Answer: Outward angulation of the distal segment of a bone
or joint, as in knock-knees (TIP: VALGUM)
• anterior cruciate ligament . Answer: A ligament in the knee that
attaches to the anterior aspect of the tibial plateau. restricting anterior
movement of the tibia on the femur
• ACL INJURY . Answer: 10 WEEK PT, NO FEET IN STRAPS OR
LEG SPRINGS
