POLESTAR Q + A
When FORM + FORCE closure are combined what is it known as? - *answers *Self bracing or
Selflocking mechanism
Why do muscle slings come into play? - *answers *When a person lacks FORM closure they
require more stability to assist in force closure
How can we develop new or correct movement? - *answers *By facilitating awareness of
optimal postural alignment. This decreases stresses to comprised body parts in both static and
dynamic positions
How many vertebrae are there in Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar spine? - *answers *7, 12, 5
What are the degrees of the facets in the Cervical, Thoracic lumbar spine? - *answers *50, 45,
90
What movement takes place in Sagittal plane? - *answers *Flexion/Extension
What movement takes place in Coronal plane? - *answers *Adduction, Abduction, Lateral
Flexion, Rotation
What movement takes place in Transverse plane? - *answers *Internal + External rotation
When Spine is in Flexion is it harder or easier to rotate? - *answers *Harder
What is Freyette's Law/Theory of motion in the spine? - *answers *When the slack of the spine
is taken up in one direction of movement, there will be less available movement in other planes
of movement
,POLESTAR Q + A
What is Eccentric Deceleration? - *answers *When a muscle slows down to allow for smooth
spinal articulation in all planes
As you are moving do your muscles lengthen or shorten? - *answers *Lengthen
While moving if your muscle distribution is decreased, how does that affect your joints? -
*answers *Leads to excessive joint movement
Is there more or less pressure on the lungs when you exhale? - *answers *LESS
When you inhale, what direction does your Diaphragm go? - *answers *Downward
Which natural chemical regulates breathing? - *answers *CO2
What type of breath moves upward and lateral? - *answers *Bucket Handle
Describe Pump Handle Breathing? - *answers *Ribs 2-6 move upward and forward
What is the force couples 6 muscles of breathing? - *answers *Pelvic Floor, TA, Diaphragm,
Lumbar Multifidus, Serratus superior and inferior
When you do an extension is it better to inhale or exhale? - *answers *INHALE
When you exhale is the air pressure on the outside lower or higher? - *answers *Lower
Exhalation is good for Spine stabilisation, what 3 other actions is it good for - *answers *Hip
extension, Shoulder Flexion, Scapular depression
,POLESTAR Q + A
What are 2 terms used when describing how your breath helps with Axial Elongation + Core
control? - *answers *Hydraullic Ampliphier
Cylinder of Support
In spine articulation, which area of the body works synergistically? - *answers *Pelvic Floor,
abdominal region, thoracic vertebrae
What are 5 strategic reasons you would not match the needs of an activity? - *answers *Neck
or lung dysfunction
Pain inhibition from low back
Excessive breathing
Over recruitment of muscles of forced expiration
disconnection between ribs and pelvis
Which 2 movements do the hydraulic amplifyer effect? - *answers *Spinal stability during hip
flexion and shoulder extension
How are movement and breath related - *answers *One facilitates the other
What principle places the body in its optimal position? - *answers *Axial elongation and core
control
Axial Elongation + Core control gives what to the body? - *answers *Have more degrees of
freedom and efficiency of movement
What is another name for sway back? - *answers *Lordosis
, POLESTAR Q + A
Describe Lordosis? - *answers *Excessive curve in the low back
Kyphosis is also known as what? - *answers *Hunchback
Where does Kyphosis usually occur? - *answers *In the Thoracic spine near the neck
Name the first two cervical spine vertebrae? - *answers *Atlas and Axis
The external & Internal obliques create which movement? - *answers *Rotation and side
bending
What 3 things does the TA do to the trunk? - *answers *Make waist smaller
draws fibers horizontally
draws fibers inward
What actions are necessary to absorb shock to the discs? - *answers *Compression & De
compression
Name the anatomical terms for the outer shell and jelly like center of the discs? - *answers
*Annulus and the nucleus pulpus
What is closed chain? - *answers *A movement in which the distal segment/extremity is fixed
on a stable surface, while the proximal segment is moving
Why does the closed chain increase your awareness of your body position in space? - *answers
*Feedback and proprioception is heightened
When FORM + FORCE closure are combined what is it known as? - *answers *Self bracing or
Selflocking mechanism
Why do muscle slings come into play? - *answers *When a person lacks FORM closure they
require more stability to assist in force closure
How can we develop new or correct movement? - *answers *By facilitating awareness of
optimal postural alignment. This decreases stresses to comprised body parts in both static and
dynamic positions
How many vertebrae are there in Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar spine? - *answers *7, 12, 5
What are the degrees of the facets in the Cervical, Thoracic lumbar spine? - *answers *50, 45,
90
What movement takes place in Sagittal plane? - *answers *Flexion/Extension
What movement takes place in Coronal plane? - *answers *Adduction, Abduction, Lateral
Flexion, Rotation
What movement takes place in Transverse plane? - *answers *Internal + External rotation
When Spine is in Flexion is it harder or easier to rotate? - *answers *Harder
What is Freyette's Law/Theory of motion in the spine? - *answers *When the slack of the spine
is taken up in one direction of movement, there will be less available movement in other planes
of movement
,POLESTAR Q + A
What is Eccentric Deceleration? - *answers *When a muscle slows down to allow for smooth
spinal articulation in all planes
As you are moving do your muscles lengthen or shorten? - *answers *Lengthen
While moving if your muscle distribution is decreased, how does that affect your joints? -
*answers *Leads to excessive joint movement
Is there more or less pressure on the lungs when you exhale? - *answers *LESS
When you inhale, what direction does your Diaphragm go? - *answers *Downward
Which natural chemical regulates breathing? - *answers *CO2
What type of breath moves upward and lateral? - *answers *Bucket Handle
Describe Pump Handle Breathing? - *answers *Ribs 2-6 move upward and forward
What is the force couples 6 muscles of breathing? - *answers *Pelvic Floor, TA, Diaphragm,
Lumbar Multifidus, Serratus superior and inferior
When you do an extension is it better to inhale or exhale? - *answers *INHALE
When you exhale is the air pressure on the outside lower or higher? - *answers *Lower
Exhalation is good for Spine stabilisation, what 3 other actions is it good for - *answers *Hip
extension, Shoulder Flexion, Scapular depression
,POLESTAR Q + A
What are 2 terms used when describing how your breath helps with Axial Elongation + Core
control? - *answers *Hydraullic Ampliphier
Cylinder of Support
In spine articulation, which area of the body works synergistically? - *answers *Pelvic Floor,
abdominal region, thoracic vertebrae
What are 5 strategic reasons you would not match the needs of an activity? - *answers *Neck
or lung dysfunction
Pain inhibition from low back
Excessive breathing
Over recruitment of muscles of forced expiration
disconnection between ribs and pelvis
Which 2 movements do the hydraulic amplifyer effect? - *answers *Spinal stability during hip
flexion and shoulder extension
How are movement and breath related - *answers *One facilitates the other
What principle places the body in its optimal position? - *answers *Axial elongation and core
control
Axial Elongation + Core control gives what to the body? - *answers *Have more degrees of
freedom and efficiency of movement
What is another name for sway back? - *answers *Lordosis
, POLESTAR Q + A
Describe Lordosis? - *answers *Excessive curve in the low back
Kyphosis is also known as what? - *answers *Hunchback
Where does Kyphosis usually occur? - *answers *In the Thoracic spine near the neck
Name the first two cervical spine vertebrae? - *answers *Atlas and Axis
The external & Internal obliques create which movement? - *answers *Rotation and side
bending
What 3 things does the TA do to the trunk? - *answers *Make waist smaller
draws fibers horizontally
draws fibers inward
What actions are necessary to absorb shock to the discs? - *answers *Compression & De
compression
Name the anatomical terms for the outer shell and jelly like center of the discs? - *answers
*Annulus and the nucleus pulpus
What is closed chain? - *answers *A movement in which the distal segment/extremity is fixed
on a stable surface, while the proximal segment is moving
Why does the closed chain increase your awareness of your body position in space? - *answers
*Feedback and proprioception is heightened
