Fundamentals of Kinesiology for Physical Therapy Assistants, Exams of Nursing

Download Fundamentals of Kinesiology for Physical Therapy Assistants and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Kinesiology for PTA Chapter 1 Kinesiology - correct answer ✔✔The study of movement; bringing together anatomy, physiology, physics and geometry and relates them to human movement Biomechanics - correct answer ✔✔mechanical principles that relate directly to the human body Static - correct answer ✔✔non-moving dynamic - correct answer ✔✔moving Kinetics - correct answer ✔✔forces that cause movement kinematics - correct answer ✔✔the time, space and mass aspects of a moving system Static positions - correct answer ✔✔standing, sitting, kneeling, lying, hanging medial - correct answer ✔✔toward the midline of body lateral - correct answer ✔✔away from the midline of the body anterior - correct answer ✔✔front of body posterior - correct answer ✔✔back of body distal - correct answer ✔✔away from the trunk proximal - correct answer ✔✔towards trunk superior - correct answer ✔✔above inferior - correct answer ✔✔below superficial/deep - correct answer ✔✔depth relation Supine - correct answer ✔✔anterior surface pointing up Prone - correct answer ✔✔anterior surface pointing down Bilateral - correct answer ✔✔both sides contralateral - correct answer ✔✔opposite side Ipsilateral - correct answer ✔✔same side ex. same knee cranial/cephalad - correct answer ✔✔head caudal - correct answer ✔✔tail Upper extremity - correct answer ✔✔arm-humerus forearm-radius, ulna hand Lower extremity - correct answer ✔✔Thigh- femur leg- tibia, fibula foot