Posture Supplament

Question 1

What is the ideal alignment of the head?

Answer 1

Neutral position, not tilted forward or back

Question 2

What is the ideal alignment of the cervical spine?

Answer 2

normal curve, slightly convex anteriorly

Question 3

What is the ideal alignment of the scapulae?

Answer 3

flat against the upper back

Question 4

What is the idea alignment of the thoracic spine?

Answer 4

normal curve, slightly convex posteiorly

Question 5

What is the ideal alignment of the lumbar spine?

Answer 5

normal curve, slightly convex anteriorly

Question 6

What is the ideal alignment of the Pelvis?

Answer 6

neutral position, anterior superior spines in same vertical plane as symphasis pubis

Question 7

What is the ideal alignment of the hip joints?

Answer 7

neutral position, neither flexed or extended

Question 8

What is the ideal alignment of the knee joints?

Answer 8

neutral position, neither flexed not hyperextended

Question 9

WHat is the ideal alignment of the ankle joint?

Answer 9

neutral position, leg vertical and at right angle to sole of foot

Question 10

In ideal sagittal alignment, abdominals pull in which direction? Hip flexors pull in which direction?

Answer 10

Abdominal: upward

Hip flexors: downward

Question 11

In ideal sagittal alignment, back extensors pull in which direction? Hip extensors pull in which direction?

Answer 11

Back: upward

Hip extensors: downward

Question 12

Abdominals and hip extensors cause which type of pelvic tilt?

Answer 12

Posterior pelvic tilt

Question 13

Hip flexors and back extensors cause which type of pelvic tilt?

Answer 13

Anterior pelvic tilt

Question 14

Forward curving of the spine

Answer 14

kyphosis

Question 15

Kyphosis is often accompanied by what?

Answer 15

posterior pelvic tilt

Question 16

Kyphosis is usually in which region of the spine?

Answer 16

thoracic

Question 17

In kyphosis, increased compression of anterior bodies of the vertebrae may cause what?

Answer 17

degenerative osteoarthritic changes

Question 18

In lordosis, there is an increase in what?

Answer 18

the lumbar sacral angle

Question 19

Lordosis is often accompanied by what?

Answer 19

anterior pelvic tilt

Question 20

Which ligaments are stressed in lordosis?

Answer 20

ALL and PLL

Question 21

What are some problems accompanied by lordosis?

Answer 21

• narrowing of intervertebral foreamen
• compression of nerve roots
• tight hip flexors and weak abdominals

Question 22

Scoliosis is distortion in which plane?

Answer 22

frontal

Question 23

Scoliosis affects which spinal regions?

Answer 23

thoracic or lumbar

Question 24

3 types of scoliosis

Answer 24

Neuromuscular scoliosis
Developmental Scoliosis
Degenerative Scoliosis