Movements/Muscles of the Spine
What is the movement/action for when the lumbar spine is hyperextended?
What is Anterior Pelvic Tilt?
What is the term for "close to the midline of the body"?
What is medial?
What muscle group is located on the anterior side of the upper leg?
What is the Quadriceps group?
Name the bones of the lower leg.
What is the tibia and the fibula?
Ligaments connect bone to bone. True or false?
True.
Demonstrate a lateral pelvic tilt/lateral flexion of the spine.
Moving the spine side to side, displacing the hips to the right or left.
What is the term that describes rotational movement away from the midline?
What is External Rotation?
Name the 3 muscles that make up the Hamstring Muscle Group.
What is the biceps femoris, semimembranosus and semitendinosus.
How many vertebrae are in the cervical spine, thoracic spine and the lumbar spine?
What is 7, 12 and 5?
What is inflammation of the plantar fascia called?
What is Plantar Fasciitis?
What two major muscle groups aid in the extension of the spine?
What is semispinalis and and erector spinae muscles?
This occurs when the attachment points of a muscle move toward each other and the muscle shortens as it exerts force. (i.e. Battement devant, hip flexor contracts towards top and bottom)
What is a concentric contraction?
What 3 muscles aid in adduction of the legs?
What is Adductor Longus, Adductor Brevis, Adductor Magnus?
Define what a sesamoid bone is.
What is a floating bone? A bone that is embedded in a muscle/tendon.
Name the two types of ligaments located in the knee joint.
What is Cruciate and Collateral Ligaments?
Movements of the spine and neck usually occur on both sides of the body. What term is used to describe movements on both sides of the body?
What is Bilateral?
The patella is ________ to the femur bone.
What is proximal?
What is Rectus Femoris, Vastus Medialis, Vastus Lateralis, and Vastus Intermedius?
What bones make up the pelvis?
What is the ischium, illium, coccyx and pubic bone?
Is the iliotibial band a tendon or a ligament?
What is a tendon?
What is Rectus Abdominis?
What is Internal Obliques?
What is External Obliques?
What is Transverse Abdominis?
The transverse abdominis is ___________ to the iliopsoas (or psoas muscle).
What is Deep?
What muscle is connected to both the spine and the pelvis and has several functions, including hip flexion and abdominal support?
What is the Iliopsoas?
Name the heel bone.
What is the Calcaneus?
List the function of cartilage in our joints.
What is shock absorption?