Kinesthetic awareness

Question 1

Anatomical Position

Answer 1

Standing straight, palms facing forward.

Question 2

What is the coronal plane?

Answer 2

The plane that divides the body in half backwards and front

Question 3

What is the frontal plane?

Answer 3

The Coronal plane

Question 4

What is the Sagittal Plane?

Answer 4

Divides the body into left and right

Question 5

What is the Median plane?

Answer 5

The sagittal plane

Question 6

What is the axial plane?

Answer 6

Divides the body into upper and lower system at about the belly button

Question 7

what is the horizontal/transverse plane?

Answer 7

The axial plane

Question 8

What are antagonists and agonists?

Answer 8

Agonists are any muscle that produces movement.

Antagonists are the muscle that does the opposite

Question 9

Do muscles push or pull?

Answer 9

Muscles can only pull

Question 10

Proximal and Distal meanings

Answer 10

Proximal: Close
Distal: Further away

Question 11

Anterior and Posterior

Answer 11

Anterior: In the front
Posterior: In the back

Question 12

Medial and lateral

Answer 12

Medial: Towards the center
Lateral: Towards the side

Question 13

Superficial and deep

Answer 13

Superficial: On the surface
Deep: Deep within

Question 14

Superior and Inferior

Answer 14

Superior: Towards the head (above)
Inferior: Towards the feet (Below)

Question 15

Right and Left anatomical

Answer 15

Right side anatomical
Left side anatomical
(The person’s left and right, not yours.)

Question 16

Flexion and Extension

Answer 16

Flexion: Decrease the angle
Extension: Increase the angle

Question 17

Adduction and abduction

Answer 17

Adduction: Bring towards the middle (or closer to the midline of the bone.
Abduction Take away from the midline

Question 18

Specific to the hands

Supination and Pronation

Answer 18

Supination: Palm facing up
Pronation: Two bones cross, palm down

Question 19

Opposition

Answer 19

Being able to touch your thumb to your fingers (monkeys can’t.)

Question 20

Specific to feet: Planter flexion and dorsi flexion

Answer 20

Planter flexion: Point toes

Dorsi flexion: Pull toes up

Question 21

Ankle Inversion and Ankle Eversion

Answer 21

Ankle Inversion: When bottom of the foot turns in

Ankle Eversion: When bottom of the foot turns out

Question 22

Shoulder elevation
Shoulder depression
shoulder protraction
shoulder retraction

Answer 22

Shoulder Elevation: Shrug shoulders up
Shoulder depression: Push shoulders down
Shoulder protraction: Pull shoulders forward (Concave chest)
Shoulders retraction: Pull shoulders back.

Question 23

Circumduction

Answer 23

Make a cone shape when swinging (Shoulder, hip, thumb)

Question 24

Inward rotation and outward rotation

Answer 24

Inward rotation: Towards body

Outward rotation: Away from the body

Question 25

How many muscles are in the calf?

Answer 25

2

Question 26

What is the two joint muscle?

Answer 26

The hamstring

Question 27

which part of the hamstring deals with knee flexion?

Answer 27

Lower hamstring

Question 28

Which part of the hamstring deals with the upper hamstring?

Answer 28

Pulls knee back?

Question 29

What muscle in the calf does toe lifts when standing?

Answer 29

Gastrocnemius

Question 30

Which muscle in the calf does toe lifts when seated?

Answer 30

Soleus