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ORTHOTIC FITTER TEST 100% DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026 STUDY SET, Exams of Health sciences

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ORTHOTIC FITTER TEST 100% DETAILED
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026 STUDY
SET
WHAT ARE THE FOUR GROUPS OF TISSUE?
EPITHELIAL, CONNECTIVE, NERVOUS, BLOOD
WHAT ARE THE SEVEN ORGAN SYSTEMS?
SKELETAL
MUSCULAR
NERVOUS
CIRCULATORY
RESPIRATORY
VISCERAL (ABDOMINAL)
LYMPHATIC
ANATOMIC POSITION
ERECT BODY, WITH FEET TOGETHER AND THE PALMS OF THE HANDS FACING FORWARD.
MEDIAN PLANE
PASSES FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM AND SEPARATES THE BODY INTO RIGHT AND LEFT.
MEDIAL
POSITIONS TOWARD THE MEDIAN PLANE
LATERAL
POSITIONS AWAY FROM THE MEDIAN PLANE
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ORTHOTIC FITTER TEST 100% DETAILED

CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026 STUDY

SET

WHAT ARE THE FOUR GROUPS OF TISSUE?

EPITHELIAL, CONNECTIVE, NERVOUS, BLOOD

WHAT ARE THE SEVEN ORGAN SYSTEMS?

SKELETAL

MUSCULAR

NERVOUS

CIRCULATORY

RESPIRATORY

VISCERAL (ABDOMINAL)

LYMPHATIC

ANATOMIC POSITION

ERECT BODY, WITH FEET TOGETHER AND THE PALMS OF THE HANDS FACING FORWARD.

MEDIAN PLANE

PASSES FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM AND SEPARATES THE BODY INTO RIGHT AND LEFT.

MEDIAL

POSITIONS TOWARD THE MEDIAN PLANE

LATERAL

POSITIONS AWAY FROM THE MEDIAN PLANE

SAGITTAL PLANE

ANY PLANE PARALLEL TO THE MEDIAN

CORONAL/FRONTAL PLANE

SEPARATES THE BODY INTO THE FORWARD HALF AND THE BACK HALF.

ANTERIOR

REFERS TO OBJECTS IN FRONT OF THE PLANE

POSTERIOR

REFERS TO OBJECTS ON THE BACK HALF OF THE BODY

TRANSVERSE PLANE

SEPARATES THE BODY INTO AN UPPER AND A LOWER HALF.

SUPERIOR

POSITIONS ABOVE THE TRANSVERSE PLANE

INFERIOR

POSITIONS BELOW THE TRANSVERSE PLANE

FLEXION

EXTENSION

FLEXION- BENDING MOVEMENT THAT DECREASES THE ANGLE BETWEEN TWO PARTS. EX.

BENDING THE ELBOW

EXTENSION- OPPOSITE OF FLEXION-STRAIGHTENING THE MOVEMENT THAT INCREASES THE

ANGLE BETWEEN BODY PARTS. EX. WHEN STANDING UP THE KNEES ARE EXTENDED

WHAT IS ABDUCTION?

WHAT IS PRONE MEAN?

LYING FACE DOWN, ON THE STOMACH

WHAT DOES PROXIMAL MEAN?

TOWARD OR NEAREST OF THE TRUNK OF THE BODY.

EX. THE PROXIMAL (TOP) END OF THE FEMUR JOINS WITH THE PELVIC BONE.

WHAT DOES DISTAL MEAN?

AWAY FROM OR FARTHEST FROM THE TRUNK.

EX. THE HAND IS LOCATED AT THE DISTAL END OF THE FOREARM.

HOW MANY BONES ARE IN THE ADULT HUMAN SKELETAL SYSTEM?

ACHILLES TENDONITIS

MICRO-TEARING AND INFLAMMATION OF THE ACHILLES TENDON THAT RESULTS IN PAIN

ACUTE

COMES ON QUICKLY, BUT LASTS A SHORT TIME.

APOPHYSIS

A GROWTH PLATE AT THE END OF THE BONES WHICH DOE NOT CONTRIBUTE TO LENGTH.

ARTHODESIS

TYPE OF SURGERY THAT INVOLVES REMOVING THE JOINT, AND PLACING THE TWO ENDS OF

THE BONES TOGETHER (WITH SCREWS PINS AND PLATES) SO THE BONES WITH GROW

TOGETHER.

EX. SPINAL OR CERVICAL FUSION

ANY TREATMENT DONE THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE SURGERY.

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT

CUNEIFORMS

BONES IN THE MIDDLE AND INSIDE OF THE FOOT

WHAT IS A FRACTURE?

A BROKEN BONE

WHAT IS A FUNCTIONAL ORTHOTIC?

A SEMI- RIGID BALANCING DEVICE DESIGNED TO SLIP INSIDE THE SHOE AND CONTROL

ABNORMAL MOTION OF THE FOOT. THE DEVICE IS MADE BY TAKING A MOLD OF THE FOOT

WHILE IT IS HELD IN A CORRECT POSITION.

HAGLAND'S DEFORMITY

A BONE PROTUBERANCE AT THE BACK OF THE HEEL THAT CAN BE INFLAMED AND CAUSE

PAIN. USUALLY OCCURS WITH HIGH ARCH FEET AND WITH HIGH-HEELED SHOES. ALSO

CALLED PUMP-BUMP.

METATARSAL

LONG BONE IN THE FOOT

NAVICULAR

A BONE IN THE MIDDLE AND INSIDE OF THE FOOT

WHAT IS PATHOLOGIC PES VALGUS?

THE MEDICAL TERN USED TO DESCRIBE A SEVERE FLATFOOT WHICH DEVELOPS MEDICAL

PROBLEMS AS A RESULT.

WHAT IS PES PLANO VALGUS?

MEDICAL TERM FOR FLATFOOT- WHEN THE FOOT TURNS IN.

WHAT DO TENDONS CONNECT?

TENDONS CONNECT MUSCLE TO BONE

APONEUROSIS

A LARGE FLAT TENDON

HOW MANY DIFFERENT MUSCLES DOES THE HUMAN BODY CONTAINS?

OVER 600.

1. TO ASSIST WITH JOINT MOVEMENT

2. TO HELP BALANCE THE BODY

3. RETAIN THE APPROPRIATE POSITION OF VITAL ORGANS

4. PROVIDE INTRO-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE

5. ASSIST IN BREATHING CONTROL

6. ASSIST IN BOWEL, BLADDER AND BIRTHING FUNCTIONS

7. AID IN ROTATION, BENDING AND FLEXING THE BODY

8. INDUCE BLOOD FLOW THROUGH THE HEART AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF MUSCLES

LOW BACK PAIN USUALLY OCCURS BECAUSE OF WHAT?

WEAK ABDOMINAL MUSCLES

WHAT ARE THE 3 TYPES OF MUSCULAR TISSUE?

1. SKELETAL

2. SMOOTH

3. CARDIAC

WHERE CAN YOU FIND SMOOTH MUSCLE?

INVOLUNTARY ORGANS

EX. GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND BLOOD VESSELS

WHERE CAN YOU FIND CARDIAC MUSCLE?

CAN BE FOUND ONLY IN THE HEART. IT IS STRUCTURALLY STRIATED AND INVOLUNTARILY

REGULATED

THIS TYPE OF MUSCLE IS STARTED AND CAN BE VOLUNTARILY CONTROLLED. THESE

MUSCLES MOVE THE BONY LEVERS OF THE BODY AND PRODUCE MOTION.

SKELETAL MUSCLE

WHAT DOES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DO?

IT IS THE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS NETWORK FOR THE BODY.

THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS MADE UP OF?

THE BRAIN AND THE SPINAL CORD.

WHAT IS THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MADE UP OF?

THE SPINAL AND CRANIAL NERVES.

HOW MAN SPINAL NERVES ARE THERE?

WHAT IS THE LARGEST AND LONGEST NERVE IN THE BODY?

SCIATIC NERVE

A JOINT

A UNION BETWEEN TWO BONES OR CARTILAGE.

WHAT ARE THE 3 TYPES OF JOINTS?

1. FIBROUS JOINT (SUCH AS SUTURES OF THE SKULL, THE BONES ARE JOINED BY A SMALL

AMOUNT OF DENSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND NO MOTION IS ALLOWED)

KYPHOSIS

A DORSAL CONVEXITY OF THE SPINE AND IS TYPICALLY USED TO DESCRIBE THE THORACIC

REGION. (HUNCHBACK)

LORDOSIS

VENTRAL CONVEXITY OF THE SPINE AND TYPICALLY USED WITH THE LUMBAR REGION AND

SOMETIMES USED TO DESCRIBE THE CERVICAL REGION. (CURVE OS THE SPINE MAKING A

"U" SHAPE.

SCOLIOSIS

A LATERAL CURVE OF THE SPINE

WHAT JOINT IS LOCATED WHERE THE TWO HIP BONES JOIN IN FRONT BY HEAVY

FIBROCARTILAGENOUS PADS?

SYMPHYSIS PUBIS

THE 4 JOINTS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY

1. HIP

2. KNEE

3. ANKLE

4. FOOT

THIS JOINT IS THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLEX JOINT IN THE BODY

THE KNEE JOINT

THE SYNOVIAL JOINT CONSISTS OF:

1. SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE

2. MENISCI

3. LIGAMENT

4. BURSAE

5. PATELLA

HOW MANY BONES AND LIGAMENTS DOES THE ANKLE JOINT CONSIST OF?