Directional Terms

Question 1

What are the three planes?

Answer 1

Frontal Plane, Transverse Plane and Sagittal Plane.

Question 2

What’s the Frontal Plane?

Answer 2

Frontal plane extends from side to side of the body (remember it as front to back sides)

Question 3

What is the Transverse plane?

Answer 3

Transverse plane is horizontal and separates the body into upper and lower halves.

Question 4

What’s the Sagittal plane?

Answer 4

Sagittal plane is vertical and extends from front to back (think as separates body from side to side).

Question 5

What are the three axis?

Answer 5

Horizontal, Longitudinal and Antero-Posterior.

Question 6

What’s the Horizontal Axis?

Answer 6

Horizontal axis stretches from side to side of the body.

Question 7

What’s the Longitudinal axis?

Answer 7

Longitudinal axis runs from head to toe (goes through the midline).

Question 8

What’s the Antero-posterior axis?

Answer 8

It extends from the front of the body to the back of the body (goes through the naval).

Question 9

Example of a cartwheel?

Answer 9

Frontal Plane of motion, Antero-posterior (sagittal) axis.