body erect, face and palms forward with feet together
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What is a body plane?
The body is divided into planes to reference a point within the body.
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Body Plane:
What is the frontal/coronal plane?
The body plane that divides the body into a front half and a back half (splitting at the ears)
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Body Plane:
What is the transverse plane?
The body plane that divides the body into two at the waist level, horizontally (so you have the top half and the bottom half)
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Body Plane:
What is the sagittal plane?
The body plane that divides the body into a left half and a right half (down the nose), and because it divides the body into 2 equal parts it gives us the midline.
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What are synovial joints?
Most of the body's joints are synovial joints, which allows for movement
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Synovial Joints:
What is flexion and extension?
Bending your arm
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Synovial Joints:
What is abduction?
Bringing your arms out to the side, adduction is bringing your arms back in towards your body
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Synovial Joints:
What is rotation?
It's in the neck or wrist
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Synovial Joints:
What is circumduction?
This occurs at the shoulder joint, allowing movement in all directions
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Synovial Joints:
What is supination and pronation?
It keep your elbows still. Supination is holding a bowl of soup and pronation is tipping it upside down.
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Synovial Joints:
What is inversion and eversion?
Inversion is turning the soles of your feet in to each other, eversion is turning the sole of your feet outwards
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Synovial Joints:
What is protraction and retraction?
It’s at your shoulders. Protraction is rolling your shoulders forward and retraction is rolling your shoulders back
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Synovial Joints:
What is elevation and depression?
Elevation is up to your ears and depression away from your ears (like when you shrug)
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Synovial Joints:
What is opposition?
There is a joint in your thumb called carpel (CMC) and the opposition allows you to take your thumb to the tip of your little finger
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Synovial Joints:
What is planta and dorsi flexion?
Plantar flexion involves lifting the whole body i.e. standing on tiptoes).
Dorsiflexion is the action of raising the foot upwards towards the shin.
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How are muscles attached to the bone?
Muscles are attached to bones by tendons
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How does the muscle work with the skeleton to produce movement?
The muscle works by puling on the tendon to allow the skeleton to then move. All muscles cross at least one joint.
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True or false: Muscles push joints
False. Muscles never push a joint, there always has to be a muscle on the opposite side to revers the movement. Generally, muscles work in pairs across the joint. They work so they have an equal force on each side. Gives you the control of your movement.
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How are joints formed?
Muscles attach to articulating bones that form the joint
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What are a muscles 6 main functions?
- Movement
- Maintain Posture
- Stabilise joint
- Generate heat
- Protect inner organs
- Regulate organ volume
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What is the muscle group that works the elbow?
Bicep (inside of the arm) & tricep (outside the arm)
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What is the flexor and extensor of the elbow?
The flexor is the bend so the bicep. The extensors are the straightening out so are the tricep
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Card 2
Front
What is a body plane?
Back
The body is divided into planes to reference a point within the body.
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