Biomechanics

Question 1

Primary focus of S&E biomechanics?

Answer 1

Improve performance and reduce injury.

Question 2

What is the study of time and space characteristics of movement called?

Answer 2

Kinematics.

Question 3

Proximal?

Answer 3

Situated closer to the point of attachment.

Question 4

Superior?

Answer 4

Toward the head of the body.

Question 5

Lateral?

Answer 5

Away from the midline of the body.

Question 6

Ulna?

Answer 6

Long bone in the forearm that stretches from the elbow to the smallest finger.

Question 7

Radius?

Answer 7

Long bone in the forearm that stretches from the elbow to the thumb.

Question 8

Sagittal plane?

Answer 8

Splits body into two symmetrical sides.

Question 9

Hyperextension?

Answer 9

Joint forced to move beyond its normal range of motion.

Question 10

Lateral flexion?

Answer 10

Movement of a body part to the side, commonly associated with the neck & spine.

Question 11

Flexion?

Answer 11

Decreasing the angle at a joint.

Question 12

Extension?

Answer 12

Increasing the angle at a joint.

Question 13

Inferior?

Answer 13

Further from the head.

Question 14

Circumduction?

Answer 14

Combines flexion, extension, adduction and abduction.

Shoulder movement whereby the hand traces a circle and the arm traces a cone.

Question 15

Frontal plane?

Answer 15

Splits the body into front and back halves.

Question 16

Longitudinal axis?

Answer 16

Line drawn through the body from top to bottom.

Question 17

Oblique plane?

Answer 17

Any plane which isn’t horizontal/vertical.

Question 18

Vertical planes?

Answer 18

Sagittal plane.

Frontal Plane.

Question 19

Horizontal plane?

Answer 19

Splits the body into top and bottom halves.

Question 20

Anteroposterior axis?

Answer 20

Line through the middle of the body from the from to the back.

Question 21

Mediolateral axis?

Answer 21

Line through the middle of the body from side to side.

Question 22

Plantar flexion?

Answer 22

When the top of your foot points away from your leg.

Question 23

Supination?

Answer 23

Turning your palm to face upward.

Question 24

Pronation?

Answer 24

Turning your palm to face downward.

Question 25

Distal?

Answer 25

Situated away from the point of attatchment/origin.

Question 26

Medial?

Answer 26

Situated in the middle.

Question 27

Adduction?

Answer 27

Toward the midline of the body.

Question 28

Abduction?

Answer 28

Away from the midline of the body.

Question 29

Scapula?

Answer 29

Shoulder blade.

Question 30

Long bone?

Answer 30

Has a shaft and two ends.

Question 31

Humerus?

Answer 31

Long bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

Question 32

Patella?

Answer 32

Knee cap.

Question 33

Occipital?

Answer 33

Forms the back/base of the skull and encircles the spinal cord.

Question 34

Coccyx?

Answer 34

Tail bone.

Question 35

Fossa?

Answer 35

A depression/hollow area.

Question 36

Hyaline?

Answer 36

Flexible, transparent looking cartilage.