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There are three main curvatures of the spine.
What are cervical, thoracic, and lumbar?
100
Major boney landmarks of the upper trunk.
What are clavicles, ribs, manubrium, and sternum?
100
Movements of the shoulder blade/scapula.
What are elevation/depression, adduction/abduction, upward/downward rotation?
100
Major joints in the lower body.
What are the hip joints, knee joints, and ankle joints?
100
This line separates the superior and inferior sections of the body.
What is the transverse plane?
200
Superficial muscles of the spine.
What are deltoids, trapezii, latissimus dorsi, supra, rhomboid major/minor, supraspinatus, infraspinatus.
200
A "sammy term" used to describe core work performed only in a staff position.
What is danda core work?
200
These bones are only attached to the manubrium by costal cartilage.
What are false ribs?
200
Three bones that fuse to form the pelvis.
What are the ilium, ischium and pubis?
200
The only muscle that connects the upper body to the lower body.
What is the psoas major?
300
Muscles responsible for spinal flexion.
What are rectus abdominus, external/internal oblique, psoas.
300
Muscles that keep the spine erect on the ventral and dorsal sides of the body (2).
What are erector spinae and rectus abdominus.
300
Striking a punching bag creates _____ of the shoulder blades.
What is abduction?
300
The biceps femoris, semitendenosus, semimembranosus and popliteus stand together to form the _______.
What is the hamstring(s) group?
300
Definition and purpose of bandha.
What is bonding or joining? What is to prevent the dissipation of prana?
400
The lower back suffers from chronic hyper flexion.
What is lordosis?
400
Agonists in yogi sit ups.
What are external/internal obliques, transverse abdominus, rectus abdominus?
400
Axial rotation of the head and neck is achieved by primarily this muscle.
What is the sternocleidomastoid?
400
The anatomical name for the heel bone.
What is the calcaneus?
400
Contraindications of breath retention.
What is pregnancy, hernias, eye or ear infection?
500
Rotatores, external/internal obliques control this type of rotation.
What is axial rotation?
500
The most inferior boney landmark of the spine. (hint: it is on the dorsal side of the body.)
What is the coccyx?
500
TWO PARTS (must answer both to receive credit): S.I.T.S join to comprise this structure. The acronym stands for _______.
What is the rotator cuff? What are supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres major/minor, subscapularis?
500
This muscle originates by two heads and inserts on the major tendon of the heel. Name the muscle and major tendon of the heel.
What is the gastrocnemius and the achilles tendon?
500
The five elements to every asana.
1. Joint positions 2. The muscles that engage. 3. The muscles that contract. 4. The breath. 5. The bandhas.