ISSA Corrective Exercise Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Tendons and ligaments are similar because they both have: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-A limited blood supply and low metabolism
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What is the name of the outer layer of connective tissue on skeletal muscle? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Epimysium
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The functional units of skeletal muscle that allow it shorten are: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Sarcomeres
In terms of muscle actions at the knee joint, the quadriceps and hamstrings are: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-antagonists
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Skeletal muscle shortens when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-actin and myosin bind
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and slide past each other
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A muscular force-couple occurs when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-two or more
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muscles concurrently produce force in different directions to produce one
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movement
,When lifting the arm overhead, impingement of the subacromial space is avoided
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when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a muscular force-couple occurs between the
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deltoid and supraspinatus | |
During a squat, your client's knees buckle inward as she ascends. This problem is
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most likely due to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-weakness of the hip abductors and
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external rotator |
After a workout, your client mentions that he feels a deep, nervy pain in his
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shoulder that radiates down to his hand. You first course of action should be to: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tell him to get cleared from a physician or physical
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therapist before your next workout | | | |
Your new client mentions that he has left shoulder pain when pressing a 50-
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pound dumbbell overhead. During your initial movement assessment, what is the
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|most acceptable first step? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Instruct him to mimic the
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left shoulder movement without any weight in hand
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When a client with right shoulder pain has been cleared to exercise, which of the
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following steps comes earliest in the corrective exercise process? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Assess whether or not the client can perform diaphragmatic | | | | | | | | |
breathing
Your client, Steve, who you haven't trained in 6 weeks calls to schedule a session
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with you. During the call he mentions that he's been losing weight without a
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change to his diet, he's been having night sweats, and recently had a fever. You
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should: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tell him to get cleared from his physician before
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scheduling a workout with you | | | |
, The purpose(s) of diaphragmatic breathing is to help your client: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-achieve a state of low stress and improve ribcage alignment | | | | | | | | |
What is one primary difference between an upper motor neuron and a lower
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motor neuron? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-All upper motor neurons are closer to
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the brain
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Your new client, John, has 3/10 right shoulder pain at rest. Last week he was
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cleared to exercise by his physician. After you take him through the first set of a
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shoulder corrective exercise, he tells you the right shoulder pain has increased to
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6/10. What is the next recommended step? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Move on to
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the next corrective exercise and see if it helps since he's been recently cleared to
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exercise
Your client, Sarah, was cleared to exercise 6 weeks ago. She shows up to a
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workout with you today and you notice that she's limping. She mentions that she
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twisted her knee playing soccer over the weekend but was hoping your corrective
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exercises could help her. You should: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-explain that she
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needs to get cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you
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Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Provide interconnectedness throughout the body | | | |
Your client, Ryan, starting jogging recently and he informs you that his right IT
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band has been feeling stiff. He also mentions that his right knee tends to buckle
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inward when climbing stairs. Which corrective exercise is likely to decrease his IT
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Correct Answers
Tendons and ligaments are similar because they both have: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-A limited blood supply and low metabolism
| | | | | |
What is the name of the outer layer of connective tissue on skeletal muscle? -
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Epimysium
|
The functional units of skeletal muscle that allow it shorten are: - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Sarcomeres
In terms of muscle actions at the knee joint, the quadriceps and hamstrings are: -
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-antagonists
|
Skeletal muscle shortens when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-actin and myosin bind
| | | | | | | | | |
and slide past each other
| | | |
A muscular force-couple occurs when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-two or more
| | | | | | | | | |
muscles concurrently produce force in different directions to produce one
| | | | | | | | | |
movement
,When lifting the arm overhead, impingement of the subacromial space is avoided
| | | | | | | | | | |
when: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a muscular force-couple occurs between the
| | | | | | | | | |
deltoid and supraspinatus | |
During a squat, your client's knees buckle inward as she ascends. This problem is
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
most likely due to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-weakness of the hip abductors and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
external rotator |
After a workout, your client mentions that he feels a deep, nervy pain in his
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shoulder that radiates down to his hand. You first course of action should be to: -
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tell him to get cleared from a physician or physical
| | | | | | | | | | |
therapist before your next workout | | | |
Your new client mentions that he has left shoulder pain when pressing a 50-
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
pound dumbbell overhead. During your initial movement assessment, what is the
| | | | | | | | | |
|most acceptable first step? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Instruct him to mimic the
| | | | | | | | | | |
left shoulder movement without any weight in hand
| | | | | | |
When a client with right shoulder pain has been cleared to exercise, which of the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
following steps comes earliest in the corrective exercise process? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Assess whether or not the client can perform diaphragmatic | | | | | | | | |
breathing
Your client, Steve, who you haven't trained in 6 weeks calls to schedule a session
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
with you. During the call he mentions that he's been losing weight without a
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
change to his diet, he's been having night sweats, and recently had a fever. You
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
should: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tell him to get cleared from his physician before
| | | | | | | | | | | |
scheduling a workout with you | | | |
, The purpose(s) of diaphragmatic breathing is to help your client: - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-achieve a state of low stress and improve ribcage alignment | | | | | | | | |
What is one primary difference between an upper motor neuron and a lower
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
motor neuron? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-All upper motor neurons are closer to
| | | | | | | | | | |
the brain
|
Your new client, John, has 3/10 right shoulder pain at rest. Last week he was
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
cleared to exercise by his physician. After you take him through the first set of a
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shoulder corrective exercise, he tells you the right shoulder pain has increased to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
6/10. What is the next recommended step? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Move on to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the next corrective exercise and see if it helps since he's been recently cleared to
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
exercise
Your client, Sarah, was cleared to exercise 6 weeks ago. She shows up to a
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
workout with you today and you notice that she's limping. She mentions that she
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
twisted her knee playing soccer over the weekend but was hoping your corrective
| | | | | | | | | | | |
exercises could help her. You should: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-explain that she
| | | | | | | | | | | |
needs to get cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Provide interconnectedness throughout the body | | | |
Your client, Ryan, starting jogging recently and he informs you that his right IT
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
band has been feeling stiff. He also mentions that his right knee tends to buckle
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
inward when climbing stairs. Which corrective exercise is likely to decrease his IT
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