Pilates Anatomy Basi Exam Questions
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Median plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into right and left halves
Sagittal Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into unequal right and left portions
Coronal Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into front and back portions
Transverse Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into upper and lower portions
10 Pilates Principles - ✔✔Awareness, Balance, Control, Efficiency,
Precision, Breath, Concentration, Center, Flow, Harmony
Synovial Joint - ✔✔Freely moving joint. ie: hip, shoulder etc.
Fibrous Joint - ✔✔Immovable joint. Ie: skull bones (connected by dense
tissue)
Flexion - ✔✔movement in an anterior direction for the upper extremities
and hip joint and movement in a posterior direction for the lower extremities
Extension - ✔✔movement in the direction opposite to flexion
Hyperextension - ✔✔excessive movement/position in the direction of
extension e.g. knees, lumbar and cervical curvatures of the spine
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,Abduction - ✔✔movement away from the mid-sagittal plane
Adduction - ✔✔movement towards the mid-sagittal plane
Lateral Flexion - ✔✔(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 - ✔✔flat or curved surfaces articulating on one
another. ie: scapula
Circumduction - ✔✔combination of flexion, abduction, extension and
adduction . ie: leg circles
Rotation - ✔✔Turning around the long axis of a bone
Tilt - ✔✔anterior tilt, posterior tilt and lateral tilt (equates to lateral flexion)
Planter flexion - ✔✔pointing of the foot
dorsi flexion - ✔✔flexing on the foot
Cartilaginous Joints - ✔✔slightly movable - ie: sacroiliac joint
Categories of Synovial Joints - ✔✔Gliding Joints (clavicle-scapula)
Ball and socket joint (hip, shoulder)
hinge joint (knee, elbow, ankle)
pivot joint (atlas-axis, pivot w/ head)
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, condyloid joint (metacarpals-phalangeal/fingers)
saddle joint (carpal-metacarpal/thumb)
Anterior/Ventral - ✔✔Front side/in front of
Posterior/Dorsal - ✔✔Backside/ in back of
Medial - ✔✔Closer to the median plane/toward midline
Sagittal Axis - ✔✔Extends from font to back and abduction-adduction
occurs around it
Coronal Axis - ✔✔Extends from side to side/flexion-extension occurs
around it
Longitudinal axis - ✔✔top to bottom/medial-lateral rotation occurs around it
Anatomical Position - ✔✔Standing with arms down by side and palms
facing forward
Neutral Pelvis - ✔✔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 - ✔✔natural curves of the spine are present
Anterior Tilt - ✔✔ASIS in front of PS
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Median plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into right and left halves
Sagittal Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into unequal right and left portions
Coronal Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into front and back portions
Transverse Plane - ✔✔Dividing the body into upper and lower portions
10 Pilates Principles - ✔✔Awareness, Balance, Control, Efficiency,
Precision, Breath, Concentration, Center, Flow, Harmony
Synovial Joint - ✔✔Freely moving joint. ie: hip, shoulder etc.
Fibrous Joint - ✔✔Immovable joint. Ie: skull bones (connected by dense
tissue)
Flexion - ✔✔movement in an anterior direction for the upper extremities
and hip joint and movement in a posterior direction for the lower extremities
Extension - ✔✔movement in the direction opposite to flexion
Hyperextension - ✔✔excessive movement/position in the direction of
extension e.g. knees, lumbar and cervical curvatures of the spine
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,Abduction - ✔✔movement away from the mid-sagittal plane
Adduction - ✔✔movement towards the mid-sagittal plane
Lateral Flexion - ✔✔(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 - ✔✔flat or curved surfaces articulating on one
another. ie: scapula
Circumduction - ✔✔combination of flexion, abduction, extension and
adduction . ie: leg circles
Rotation - ✔✔Turning around the long axis of a bone
Tilt - ✔✔anterior tilt, posterior tilt and lateral tilt (equates to lateral flexion)
Planter flexion - ✔✔pointing of the foot
dorsi flexion - ✔✔flexing on the foot
Cartilaginous Joints - ✔✔slightly movable - ie: sacroiliac joint
Categories of Synovial Joints - ✔✔Gliding Joints (clavicle-scapula)
Ball and socket joint (hip, shoulder)
hinge joint (knee, elbow, ankle)
pivot joint (atlas-axis, pivot w/ head)
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, condyloid joint (metacarpals-phalangeal/fingers)
saddle joint (carpal-metacarpal/thumb)
Anterior/Ventral - ✔✔Front side/in front of
Posterior/Dorsal - ✔✔Backside/ in back of
Medial - ✔✔Closer to the median plane/toward midline
Sagittal Axis - ✔✔Extends from font to back and abduction-adduction
occurs around it
Coronal Axis - ✔✔Extends from side to side/flexion-extension occurs
around it
Longitudinal axis - ✔✔top to bottom/medial-lateral rotation occurs around it
Anatomical Position - ✔✔Standing with arms down by side and palms
facing forward
Neutral Pelvis - ✔✔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 - ✔✔natural curves of the spine are present
Anterior Tilt - ✔✔ASIS in front of PS
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