Chapter 1 Review Questions
Picking up a pencil on the floor beside your chair involves what truck joint motion?
trunk lateral bending
If you place your hand on the back of a dog, that is referred to as what surface? If you place your hand on the back of a person, that is referred to as what surface?
Dorsal surface of dog, posterior surface of person
What is the position of the left knee?
Left knee extension
Looking at the spot on the ceiling directly over your head involves what joint motion?
Neck hyperextension
What is the only difference between anatomical position and fundamental position?
Same except for the forearms, which are supinated in anatomical postion and neutral position (between sup and pro) in the fundamental position
Putting your hand in your back pocket involves what shoulder joint rotation?
Shoulder medial rotation
When a football is kicked through the goalposts, what type of motion is being demonstrated by the football? By the kicker?
The football is demonstrating curvilinear motion. The kicker's leg is demonstrating angular motion
Using descriptive terminology, complete the following: a. The sternum is ____ to the vertebral column. b. The calcaneus (heel) is on the _____ portion of the foot. c. The hip is _____ to the chest. d. The femur is _____ to the tibia e. The radius is on the ______ side of the forearm
a. anterior b. posterior c. inferior d. proximal e. lateral
A person wheeling across a room in wheelchair uses both linear and angular motion. Describe when each type of motion is being used.
angular motion is used by upper extremity joints- shoulders, elbows, wrists, - to propel wheelchair. Linear motion occurs as the person moves across the room in the wheelchair.
Putting your right ankle on your left knee involves what type of hip rotation
hip lateral rotation
When touching the left shoulder with the left hand, is a person using the contralateral or ipsilateral hand?
ipsilateral
Refer to Figure 1-15 below. Identify the three main positions of the left hip
left hip flexion (slightly), addiction, lateral rotation
Identify the two main position of the neck (not the head).
neck extension, rotation of the left
What is the position of the right forearm?
right forearm supination
A person lying on a bed staring at the ceiling is in what position?
supine