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NPCP Study Quiz Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: What is the equipment set up for the Long Stretch Series
Ans✅ ✅: Headrest up, footbar up, 2 springs
Question: When working with a client with multiple sclerosis, what
precautions need to be taken?
Ans✅ ✅: Avoid over-exertion and guard carefully with balance exercises
Question: Which statement BEST identifies the contraindications for a
client with a lumbar posteriorly herniated disc?
Ans✅ ✅: Exclude spinal flexion, vertical loading, straight leg raises, and spinal
rotation
Question: What teaching skill is effective in promoting positive
reinforcement for exercise performance?
Ans✅ ✅: Recognize improvements with specific feedback
Question: The client comes to the session with reports of a stress
fracture of the fifth metatarsal and they are cleared to exercise. Which of
the following exercises are most appropriate?
Ans✅ ✅: Double Leg Pumps: Heels on Wunda Chair
Question: A regular Pilates client arrives complaining of intense lower
back pain due to a fall over the weekend. Choose the beset response to
present to the client.
Ans✅ ✅: Please contact your doctor for an appointment before we continue our
sessions.
Question: If a client has had a past history of plantar fasciitis, which of
the following is the BEST exercise to include in their program?
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Ans✅ ✅: Knee Stretches on the Reformer
Question: When should the Pilates teacher recommend that a client
with chronic fatigue syndrome consult with a physician before continuing
with a Pilates program?
Ans✅ ✅: When the client experiences muscle soreness for more than 24 hours after
the exercise session.
Question: Which of the following exercises would tend to displace the
lumbar disc nucleus posteriorly
Ans✅ ✅: Stomach massage round back on reformer
Question: As a Pilates Teacher you are responsible to make sure that
the facilities you sue are free from unreasonable hazards. one important
condition to consider regarding the set up fo the Pilates studio is:
Ans✅ ✅: There is adéquat space around each piece of equipment.
Question: What is an important safety check prior to performing swan
dive on the ladder barrel
Ans✅ ✅: make sure all knobs are tightened
Question: Which Pilates exercise is contraindicated in a program for a
client with osteopenia/osteoporosis?
Ans✅ ✅: roll up on the mat
Question: pelvis is formed by the fusion of three smaller bones they are
Ans✅ ✅: ilium, ischium and pubis
Question: a client has used a prop to assist with improved movement
quality of a specific exercise. what indicates to the teacher that the client
no longer needs the prop
Ans✅ ✅: remove the prop and assess the movement
Question: which pilates mat exercise would most directly prepare a
client to perform forward lunge on the wunda chair
NPCP Study Quiz Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: What is the equipment set up for the Long Stretch Series
Ans✅ ✅: Headrest up, footbar up, 2 springs
Question: When working with a client with multiple sclerosis, what
precautions need to be taken?
Ans✅ ✅: Avoid over-exertion and guard carefully with balance exercises
Question: Which statement BEST identifies the contraindications for a
client with a lumbar posteriorly herniated disc?
Ans✅ ✅: Exclude spinal flexion, vertical loading, straight leg raises, and spinal
rotation
Question: What teaching skill is effective in promoting positive
reinforcement for exercise performance?
Ans✅ ✅: Recognize improvements with specific feedback
Question: The client comes to the session with reports of a stress
fracture of the fifth metatarsal and they are cleared to exercise. Which of
the following exercises are most appropriate?
Ans✅ ✅: Double Leg Pumps: Heels on Wunda Chair
Question: A regular Pilates client arrives complaining of intense lower
back pain due to a fall over the weekend. Choose the beset response to
present to the client.
Ans✅ ✅: Please contact your doctor for an appointment before we continue our
sessions.
Question: If a client has had a past history of plantar fasciitis, which of
the following is the BEST exercise to include in their program?
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Ans✅ ✅: Knee Stretches on the Reformer
Question: When should the Pilates teacher recommend that a client
with chronic fatigue syndrome consult with a physician before continuing
with a Pilates program?
Ans✅ ✅: When the client experiences muscle soreness for more than 24 hours after
the exercise session.
Question: Which of the following exercises would tend to displace the
lumbar disc nucleus posteriorly
Ans✅ ✅: Stomach massage round back on reformer
Question: As a Pilates Teacher you are responsible to make sure that
the facilities you sue are free from unreasonable hazards. one important
condition to consider regarding the set up fo the Pilates studio is:
Ans✅ ✅: There is adéquat space around each piece of equipment.
Question: What is an important safety check prior to performing swan
dive on the ladder barrel
Ans✅ ✅: make sure all knobs are tightened
Question: Which Pilates exercise is contraindicated in a program for a
client with osteopenia/osteoporosis?
Ans✅ ✅: roll up on the mat
Question: pelvis is formed by the fusion of three smaller bones they are
Ans✅ ✅: ilium, ischium and pubis
Question: a client has used a prop to assist with improved movement
quality of a specific exercise. what indicates to the teacher that the client
no longer needs the prop
Ans✅ ✅: remove the prop and assess the movement
Question: which pilates mat exercise would most directly prepare a
client to perform forward lunge on the wunda chair
