Kinesthetic awareness Flashcards
Anatomical Position
Standing straight, palms facing forward.
What is the coronal plane?
The plane that divides the body in half backwards and front
What is the frontal plane?
The Coronal plane
What is the Sagittal Plane?
Divides the body into left and right
What is the Median plane?
The sagittal plane
What is the axial plane?
Divides the body into upper and lower system at about the belly button
what is the horizontal/transverse plane?
The axial plane
What are antagonists and agonists?
Agonists are any muscle that produces movement.
Antagonists are the muscle that does the opposite
Do muscles push or pull?
Muscles can only pull
Proximal and Distal meanings
Proximal: Close
Distal: Further away
Anterior and Posterior
Anterior: In the front
Posterior: In the back
Medial and lateral
Medial: Towards the center
Lateral: Towards the side
Superficial and deep
Superficial: On the surface
Deep: Deep within
Superior and Inferior
Superior: Towards the head (above)
Inferior: Towards the feet (Below)
Right and Left anatomical
Right side anatomical
Left side anatomical
(The person’s left and right, not yours.)
Flexion and Extension
Flexion: Decrease the angle
Extension: Increase the angle
Adduction and abduction
Adduction: Bring towards the middle (or closer to the midline of the bone.
Abduction Take away from the midline
Specific to the hands
Supination and Pronation
Supination: Palm facing up
Pronation: Two bones cross, palm down
Opposition
Being able to touch your thumb to your fingers (monkeys can’t.)
Specific to feet: Planter flexion and dorsi flexion
Planter flexion: Point toes
Dorsi flexion: Pull toes up
Ankle Inversion and Ankle Eversion
Ankle Inversion: When bottom of the foot turns in
Ankle Eversion: When bottom of the foot turns out
Shoulder elevation
Shoulder depression
shoulder protraction
shoulder retraction
Shoulder Elevation: Shrug shoulders up
Shoulder depression: Push shoulders down
Shoulder protraction: Pull shoulders forward (Concave chest)
Shoulders retraction: Pull shoulders back.
Circumduction
Make a cone shape when swinging (Shoulder, hip, thumb)
Inward rotation and outward rotation
Inward rotation: Towards body
Outward rotation: Away from the body
