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Polestar Pilates Exam (2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct Q: What is one of the functions of the transversus abdominus Answer: It is a prepara- tory muscle for the organisation of movement Q: What are the 4 components that make up the Hydraulic Amplifier/Force Couple? Answer: Diaphragm, Transverse Abdominus, Pelvic Floor and Multifidus Q: What are the 3 components included in Panjabi's Model for Stability Answer: Motor control, contractile, and inert Q: What's included in the Inert structures (Panjabi's Model for Stability)? Answer: - Bone, ligament, fascia, and disc Q: What's included in the Contractile structures (Panjabi's Model for Stabili- ty)? Answer: Muscles Q: What's included in the Motor Control (Panjabi's Model for Stability)? Answer: Neu- romuscular system, and feedback and feedforward mechanisms Q: What is the neutral zone (as defined by Panjabi)? Answer: Neutral zone is a "measure of spinal laxity in the vicinity of the neutral position" Q: What is the take-home message of the Polestar Principle 'Spine Articula- tion'? Answer: That "distribution of movement = distribution of forces" Q: What does "distribution of movement = distribution of forces" actually mean? Answer: This basically means that the more segments of our spine that we move from, the less stress or force that will go through any of the inert structures or muscles of our spine Q: What is the saying Joseph Pilates makes about spine articulation? Answer: He says that "if your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old; if it is completely flexible at 60, you are young" Q: Global muscles (PP - spine articulation) Answer: Rectus abdominus, external obliques, internal oblique - anterior fibers, quadratus lumborum - lateral fibers, longissimus thoracic - superior fibers, iliocostalis lumborum - superior fibers

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