Chapter 1 review questions

In the anatomical position the forearms are in what position?

supination

A person lying on the bed staring at the ceiling is in what position?

supine

Picking up a pencil on the floor beside your chair involves what trunk joint motion?

trunk lateral bending

A person wheeling across the room in a wheelchair is both linear and angular motion. Describe when each type of motion is being used.

Angular motion is being used by upper extremity joints - shoulders, elbows, wrists - to propel the wheelchair. Linear motion occurs as the person moves across the room in the wheelchair.

Using descriptive terminology, complete the following: A. The sternum is _____ to the vertebral column.

Anterior

If you place your hand on the back of a dog, that is referred to as placing it on what surface? If you place your hand on the back of a person that is referred to as placing it on what surface?

Dorsal surface of dog, posterior surface of person

Using descriptive terminology complete the following: C. The hip is _____ to the chest.

Inferior

Using descriptive terminology complete the following: E. The radius is on the _____ side of the forearm.

Lateral

Identify the three main positions of the left hip.

Left hip flexion (slight), adduction, lateral rotation

What is the position of the left knee?

Left knee extension

Identify the two main positions of the neck (not the head).

Neck extension, rotation to the left

Looking at a spot on the ceiling directly over your head involves what joint motion?

Neck hyperextension

Using descriptive terminology complete the following: B. The calcaneus is on the _____ portion of the foot.

Posterior

Using descriptive terminology complete the following: D. The femur is _____ to the tibia.

Proximal

What is the position of the right forearm?

Right forearm supination

Putting your hand in your back pocket involves what shoulder joint rotation?

Shoulder medial rotation

When a football is kicked through the goalpost what type of motion is being demonstrated by the football? By the kicker?

The football is demonstrating curvilinear motion, whereas the kicker's leg is demonstrating angular motion.

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