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When you rotate your torso to strap on a seat belt you are using your ________ muscle.
What is transversospinalis?
What short muscles are located on the spinal processes of the vertebral column and allow the spine to extend?
What is the Interspinalis?
In the condition of “Sway Back”, which way does the pelvis tilt?
What is Posteriorly?
What are the two structures that make up the occiput?(base of the skull)
What is the external occipital protuberance and the superior nuchal lines?
Shampooing your hair, appreciating a large painting from close, and nodding your head all involve what muscle?
A. Oblique Capitis Inferior
B. Spinalis
C. Suboccipitals
D. Quadratus Lumborum
What is Suboccipitals?
When blowing up a balloon you are using your _______ and ______ muscles.
What is diaphragm and intercostals?
Kelli, Two Truths and a lie
I ran the Dallas, Chicago, and New York marathons
I competitively danced as a child
I got married in a mansion
Good posture enables full use of the all the following except
A. upper extremities
B. hands
C. vision
D. feet
What are Feet?
What part of the spine allows the most rotation?
A. Cervical
B. Lumbar
C. Thoracic
What is Cervical?
What ribs are known as the “true ribs”?
What are Ribs 1-7?
When breathing heavily, the ribs expand and move in three different directions during inhalation. What three motions is it?
What is Anterior/Superior, Lateral, Superior?
What movements are available at the spine?
What is Flexion, extension, rotation, lateral flexion, and lateral extension?
During lumbar lordosis, the pelvis tilts in what direction?
What is Anterior?
What vertebrae are the most mobile and accessible of the twenty-four spinal bones?
A. Cervical
B. Thoracic
C. Lumbar
What is Cervical?
Which is an antagonist for vertebral column extension?
A. Semispinalis capitis
B. Iliocostalis
C. Internal oblique
D. Quadratus lumborum
What is Internal oblique?
Picking up a heavy suitcase engages which muscle group?
What is the Erector Spinae Group?
Which 3 muscles make up your erector spinae muscle group?
What is the Iliocostalis, longissimus, and spinalis?
True or False?
The Transversospinalis Group is the main muscle group responsible for maintaining an upright posture?
What is False? The correct answer is the Erector Spinae Group.
Two truths and Lie- Laurie
I have ridden the entire length of the Katy Trail on my bicycle! – False – only about 2/3, and it was not all at the same time.
What are the antagonist muscles for elevation?
What is Internal Costals and Serratus Posterior Inferior?
If someone was up to bat in the game of baseball, and got a pitch thrown to the midsection of their body, what would be the part of your body protecting their organs from being damaged?
A. Abdominals
B. Splenius Capitis
C. Cervicis
D. Transversospinalis Group
What is Abdominals?
What part of your body hoists your spinal column and binds your vertebrae together?
A. Multifidi
B. Rectus abdominis
C. Internal and external obliques
D. Traverse abdominis
What is the Multifidi?
The Splenius Capitis and Cervicis do all of the following except?
A. Rotate the head and neck to same side
B. Laterally Flex Head and Neck
C. Stabilizes Vertebrae Column
D. Extends Head and Neck
What is Stabilizes Vertebrae Column?
What muscles are a part of the Transversospinalis group?
What is Multifidi, rotatores, and semispinalis capitis?
What is the function of the 8 small subocciptal muscles of the upper posterior neck?
What is stablizing the axis/atlas, and creates intrinsic movements such as rocking and tiliting the head?