Chapter 38: Activity and Exercise

Question 0

This is a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement. What is this defined as?

Answer 0

Friction

Question 1

This is found In most mammals and especially in bipeds, they are the extensor muscles. What is this defined as?

Answer 1

Anti-gravity muscles

Question 2

These are called the true joints. What is this defined as?

Answer 2

Synovial joints

Question 3

These are activities usually performed in the course of a normal day in the patient’s life such as eating, dressing, bathing, brushing the teeth, or grooming.
What is this defined as?

Answer 3

Activities of daily living (ADL’S)

Question 4

This is the point at which a person is not willing to accept pain of greater severity or duration. What is this defined as?

Answer 4

Activity Tolerance

Question 5

This is nonvascular, supporting connective tissue with the flexibility of a firm, plastic material; because of its gristle-like nature, it sustains weight and serves a shock absorber between articulating bones. What is this defined as?

Answer 5

Cartilage

Question 6

This causes movement in the joint.

What is this defined as?

Answer 6

Antagonistic muscles

Question 8

These have little movement but are elastic and used to unite separate body surfaces such as the synchondrosis that attaches the ribs to the costals.
What is this defined as?

Answer 8

Cartilaginous joints

Question 9

This is a midpoint or center of the weight of a body or object. What is this defined as?

Answer 9

Center of gravity

Question 10

These are the muscles that maintain the posture characteristic of a given animal species. What is this defined as?

Answer 10

Anti-gravity muscles

Question 10

This is a function achieved by a person using crutches. What is this defined as?

Answer 10

Crutch gait

Question 11

This is an activity requiring physical effort, carried out especially to sustain or improve health and fitness.
What is this defined as?

Answer 11

Exercise

Question 12

These joints have no joint cavity and are connected via connective tissue. What is this defined as?

Answer 12

Fibrous joints

Question 12

In long term care settings, these are placed on the end of beds, patients push against them to move up in bed.
What is this defined as?

Answer 12

Footboards

Question 13

This creates resistive isometric exercises which help promote muscle strength and provide sufficient stress against bone to promote osteoblastic activity. What is this defined as?

Answer 13

Footboards

Question 16

This supports the skeletal system. What is this defined as?

Answer 16

Ligaments

Question 17

This is the effects of rubbing or the resistance that a moving body meets from the surface on which it moves. What is this defined as?

Answer 17

Friction

Question 18

This is total or partial paralysis of one side of the body that results from disease of or injury to the motor centers of the brain. What is this defined as?

Answer 18

Hemiplegia

Question 20

This can cause muscle contraction and change in muscle lengths. What is this defined as?

Answer 20

Isotonic contraction

Question 21

These joints are also called “fixed” or “immovable” joints, because they do not move. What is this defined as?

Answer 21

Fibrous joints

Question 22

This a a patient’s manner or style of walking, including rhythm, cadence, and speed. What is this defined as?

Answer 22

Gait

Question 23

This is the connection between bones. What is this defined as?

Answer 23

Joint

Question 24

This is muscular weakness or partial paralysis restricted to one side of the body. What is this defined as?

Answer 24

Hemiparesis

Question 24

This involves the tightening or tensing of muscles without moving body parts. What is this defined as?

Answer 24

Isometric Contraction

Question 25

These connect bones and cartilage. And they are white, shiny, flexible bands of fibrous tissue that bind joints. What is this defined as?

Answer 25

Ligaments

Question 26

Assessment of this function has 3 components: ROM, gait, and exercise. What is this defined as?

Answer 26

Mobility

Question 27

This is the normal state of balanced muscle tension. What is this defined as?

Answer 27

Muscle tone

Question 28

This is the position of the body in relation to the surrounding space. What is this defined as?

Answer 28

Posture

Question 29

This is the ability of the body to sense its position and movement in space. What is this defined as?

Answer 29

Proprioception

Question 30

This is the ability to move in one’s environment with ease and without restriction. What is this defined as?

Answer 30

Mobility

Question 31

This is a range of movement of a joint from maximum extension to maximum flexion as measured in degrees of a circle.
What is this defined as?

Answer 31

Range of Motion (ROM)

Question 32

This example of a type of joint has a hinge at the elbow, are freely movable and the most mobile, numerous, and anatomically complex body joints.
What is this defined as?

Answer 32

Synovial joints

Question 33

These connect muscle to bone and are white, glistening, fibrous bands of tissue. What is this defined as?

Answer 33

Tendons

Question 34

This is also known as an articulation. What is this defined as?

Answer 34

Joint

Question 35

These muscles stabilize joints. What is this defined as?

Answer 35

Anti-gravity muscles

Question 36

During movement the active mover muscle contracts while this muscle type relaxes.
What is this defined as?

Answer 36

Antagonist Muscles

Question 37

These contract to accomplish the same movement.

What is this defined as?

Answer 37

Synergistic muscles

Question 38

This is connected by dense connective tissue, consisting mainly of collagen.
What is this defined as?

Answer 38

Fibrous joints

Question 39

This is a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement. What is this defined as?

Answer 39

Friction