PMA Exam Study Set 1 Latest 2023 Questions with all the
correct answers
The following is WITHIN the scope of practice of a Pilates teacher
1. Design Pilates exercise programs according to an individual's needs.
2. Recognize conditions that would preclude a client from safely participating in a
Pilates exercise program.
3. Coach, provide general info, and direct clients to seek medical attention when
necessary.
4. Receive exercise guidelines and clearance from medical practitioners, when
appropriate, to ensure clients safety.
5. Document client's progress and cooperate with referring medical practitioners.
6. Promote exercise to improve overall health.
7. Request permission to touch clients and observe practice laws within your
jurisditction.
8. Use appropriate touch to facilitate movement, position of the client, and prevent injury
or damage.
The following is BEYOND the scope of practice of a Pilates teacher
1. "Prescribing" an exercise program.
2. "Diagnosing" a client with any medical, mental or physical condition.
3. Continuing to train a client with a condition that is beyond your knowledge without
appropriate medical clearance.
4. "Prescribing" diets or recommending supplements.
5. Claiming to "treat" or "rehabilitate" injury or disease.
6. Offering counseling.
8. Claiming to be competent to offer professional education beyond the limits of your
credentials.
9. Applying inappropriate touch.
10. Continuing to train a client that exhibits any of the following unusual symptoms:
chest pain, prolonged dizziness, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, significant
decrease in coordination, loss of consciousness, faintness, nausea, blurred vision,
prolonged or increasing pain.
Code of Ethics
1. Do no harm.
2. Teach within your scope of practice.
3. Maintain professional boundaries.
4. Maintain client confidentiality.
5. Direct clients to seek medical attention when necessary.
6. Do not discriminate against clients or colleagues.
7. Do not intentionally solicit clients from other instructors.
8. Treat clients and colleagues with respect, truth, fairness, and integrity.
9. Comply with all applicable business, employment and intellectual property laws.
10. Maintain professional appearance and conduct.
11. Do not misrepresent appearance and conduct.
12. Do not misrepresent skills, training, professional credentials, identity or services.
, 13. Maintain appropriate insurance.
14. Adhere to client instruction ratios of:
1 teacher for a max of 10 students in a mat class.
1 teacher for a max of 5 students in a studio setting or equip class.
Performance Domain 1: Assessment and Evaluation (Identifying goals, special
conditions, etc.)
PMA Study Guide says 13% but PIA teaches 36%
Tasks:
1. Obtain info about a client's medical health history, and current fitness level using
questionnaires, interviews, and other available records. This is in order to design a safe
program.
2. Through this information, identity risk factors and co-morbidities of the client (e.g.,
medications, surgeries, systemic illness, physical disabilities, psychological disabilities)
that might preclude or limit participation in a Pilates program without a medial release.
3. Discuss, determine, align, and prioritize goals by evaluating subjective and objective
information in order to set up a client program with the greatest possibility for growth
and improvement.
4. Identify needs, imbalances, and symmetries relating to the client's posture,
movement, balance, and coordination, using observation and movement assessment
tools with the goal of creating an appropriate Pilates program.
5. Acquire information about the special conditions of a client through a medical release
form in order to make appropriate modifications to the program design.
Performance Domain 2: Teaching
PMA teaches 65% but PIA teaches 46%
1. Develop and design a client's program incorporating Pilates methodologies (e.g.,
repertioure, philosophy) and information gathered during the assessment to ensure a
successful movement experience.
2. Apply knowledge in basic movement science (e.g., functional anatomy, physiology,
biomechanics, kinesiology, motor learning) to assessment, design, implementation,
progression and modification of Pilates program to optimize Pilates benefits for clients.
3. Use basic teaching skills (e.g., verbal and tactile cueing, imagery, pacing,
multitasking, spotting, demonstration) to educate clients in the correct movement
technique of the Pilates Method.
4. Employ a wide range of elements from the Pilates syllabus and Pilates environment
(i.e., reformer, trapeze table, chairs, barrels, ped-o-pull, mat, magic circle, tower, foot
corrector, toe corrector, finger corrector, pin wheel, head harness, weighted shoe, bean
bag.
Performance Domain 3: Reassessment
PMA teaches 22% and PIA teaches 18%)
1. Maintain awareness of a client's progress and current status by using subjective and
objective measurements (e.g., chart, notes). This will make certain the program
matches client's challenge point.
2. Assess client's current status by gathering information (e.g., mobility, posture,
menstruation, faint, cold, sweats, chest pain, change of activity, sleep deprivation) and
modify the workout to accomodate special circumstances.
3. Re-assess and re-align short and long-term program goals and content, using
correct answers
The following is WITHIN the scope of practice of a Pilates teacher
1. Design Pilates exercise programs according to an individual's needs.
2. Recognize conditions that would preclude a client from safely participating in a
Pilates exercise program.
3. Coach, provide general info, and direct clients to seek medical attention when
necessary.
4. Receive exercise guidelines and clearance from medical practitioners, when
appropriate, to ensure clients safety.
5. Document client's progress and cooperate with referring medical practitioners.
6. Promote exercise to improve overall health.
7. Request permission to touch clients and observe practice laws within your
jurisditction.
8. Use appropriate touch to facilitate movement, position of the client, and prevent injury
or damage.
The following is BEYOND the scope of practice of a Pilates teacher
1. "Prescribing" an exercise program.
2. "Diagnosing" a client with any medical, mental or physical condition.
3. Continuing to train a client with a condition that is beyond your knowledge without
appropriate medical clearance.
4. "Prescribing" diets or recommending supplements.
5. Claiming to "treat" or "rehabilitate" injury or disease.
6. Offering counseling.
8. Claiming to be competent to offer professional education beyond the limits of your
credentials.
9. Applying inappropriate touch.
10. Continuing to train a client that exhibits any of the following unusual symptoms:
chest pain, prolonged dizziness, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, significant
decrease in coordination, loss of consciousness, faintness, nausea, blurred vision,
prolonged or increasing pain.
Code of Ethics
1. Do no harm.
2. Teach within your scope of practice.
3. Maintain professional boundaries.
4. Maintain client confidentiality.
5. Direct clients to seek medical attention when necessary.
6. Do not discriminate against clients or colleagues.
7. Do not intentionally solicit clients from other instructors.
8. Treat clients and colleagues with respect, truth, fairness, and integrity.
9. Comply with all applicable business, employment and intellectual property laws.
10. Maintain professional appearance and conduct.
11. Do not misrepresent appearance and conduct.
12. Do not misrepresent skills, training, professional credentials, identity or services.
, 13. Maintain appropriate insurance.
14. Adhere to client instruction ratios of:
1 teacher for a max of 10 students in a mat class.
1 teacher for a max of 5 students in a studio setting or equip class.
Performance Domain 1: Assessment and Evaluation (Identifying goals, special
conditions, etc.)
PMA Study Guide says 13% but PIA teaches 36%
Tasks:
1. Obtain info about a client's medical health history, and current fitness level using
questionnaires, interviews, and other available records. This is in order to design a safe
program.
2. Through this information, identity risk factors and co-morbidities of the client (e.g.,
medications, surgeries, systemic illness, physical disabilities, psychological disabilities)
that might preclude or limit participation in a Pilates program without a medial release.
3. Discuss, determine, align, and prioritize goals by evaluating subjective and objective
information in order to set up a client program with the greatest possibility for growth
and improvement.
4. Identify needs, imbalances, and symmetries relating to the client's posture,
movement, balance, and coordination, using observation and movement assessment
tools with the goal of creating an appropriate Pilates program.
5. Acquire information about the special conditions of a client through a medical release
form in order to make appropriate modifications to the program design.
Performance Domain 2: Teaching
PMA teaches 65% but PIA teaches 46%
1. Develop and design a client's program incorporating Pilates methodologies (e.g.,
repertioure, philosophy) and information gathered during the assessment to ensure a
successful movement experience.
2. Apply knowledge in basic movement science (e.g., functional anatomy, physiology,
biomechanics, kinesiology, motor learning) to assessment, design, implementation,
progression and modification of Pilates program to optimize Pilates benefits for clients.
3. Use basic teaching skills (e.g., verbal and tactile cueing, imagery, pacing,
multitasking, spotting, demonstration) to educate clients in the correct movement
technique of the Pilates Method.
4. Employ a wide range of elements from the Pilates syllabus and Pilates environment
(i.e., reformer, trapeze table, chairs, barrels, ped-o-pull, mat, magic circle, tower, foot
corrector, toe corrector, finger corrector, pin wheel, head harness, weighted shoe, bean
bag.
Performance Domain 3: Reassessment
PMA teaches 22% and PIA teaches 18%)
1. Maintain awareness of a client's progress and current status by using subjective and
objective measurements (e.g., chart, notes). This will make certain the program
matches client's challenge point.
2. Assess client's current status by gathering information (e.g., mobility, posture,
menstruation, faint, cold, sweats, chest pain, change of activity, sleep deprivation) and
modify the workout to accomodate special circumstances.
3. Re-assess and re-align short and long-term program goals and content, using
