Physical Activity and Health Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Research on Stress - Correct answers✔✔Stress does not have a negative impact on health like
we used to think, BELIEVING that stress is bad for you does. Healthiest people are those with
high levels of stress that DO NOT believe stress is a bad thing.
Lifestyle or modifiable risk factors - Correct answers✔✔Things you can control to reduce your
chance of developing a disease. Healthy lifestyle reduces risk of type II diabetes.
Genetic or non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answers✔✔Things you can not control to reduce
your chance of developing a disease. Age, gender, race, family history.
Scope of Practice - Correct answers✔✔Who you are qualified to and comfortable working with.
Comes down to personal experience, confidence, education, etc.
Sometimes you need to work with doctors, physios, etc - they write the programme for a client
(eg. knee reconstruction) and you deliver it.
Myocardial Infarction - Correct answers✔✔Heart attack
Angina - Correct answers✔✔Mini heart attack - warning sign of future heart attack.
Cardiac Arrest v Heart Attack - Correct answers✔✔Cardiac Arrest - electrical problem, heart
stops, unconscious and needs CPR, call 111.
Heart Attack - block is causing heart to lose blood supply, conscious, call 111.
, Signs of a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Pain in jaw, shoulder, arm or chest. Sweating, short
of breath.
Risk factors for a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Poor diet, lack of exercise, genetics, age,
overweight, hypertension.
Exercise post-heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Low intensity, aerobic, build up duration and
frequency. Resistance training down the track.
Surgery for a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Angioplasty and stent - go into the artery with
chicken wire and a balloon to push the block (plaque) against the walls and restore blood flow.
By-pass surgery - graft on another blood vessel to "by-pass" the block.
Aneurysm - Correct answers✔✔Bulge or balloon in a blood vessels that weakens it - more likely
to burst.
Thrombosis - Correct answers✔✔Block that occurs at the site - plaque build up or blood clot to
repair damaged vessel.
Embolus - Correct answers✔✔Travelling plaque or blood clot that then gets wedged to block a
blood vessel.
Atherosclerosis - Correct answers✔✔Process of plaque build up over time.
Ischemia - Correct answers✔✔Loss of blood flow due to a block.
Hemorrhage - Correct answers✔✔Burst blood vessel.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Research on Stress - Correct answers✔✔Stress does not have a negative impact on health like
we used to think, BELIEVING that stress is bad for you does. Healthiest people are those with
high levels of stress that DO NOT believe stress is a bad thing.
Lifestyle or modifiable risk factors - Correct answers✔✔Things you can control to reduce your
chance of developing a disease. Healthy lifestyle reduces risk of type II diabetes.
Genetic or non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answers✔✔Things you can not control to reduce
your chance of developing a disease. Age, gender, race, family history.
Scope of Practice - Correct answers✔✔Who you are qualified to and comfortable working with.
Comes down to personal experience, confidence, education, etc.
Sometimes you need to work with doctors, physios, etc - they write the programme for a client
(eg. knee reconstruction) and you deliver it.
Myocardial Infarction - Correct answers✔✔Heart attack
Angina - Correct answers✔✔Mini heart attack - warning sign of future heart attack.
Cardiac Arrest v Heart Attack - Correct answers✔✔Cardiac Arrest - electrical problem, heart
stops, unconscious and needs CPR, call 111.
Heart Attack - block is causing heart to lose blood supply, conscious, call 111.
, Signs of a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Pain in jaw, shoulder, arm or chest. Sweating, short
of breath.
Risk factors for a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Poor diet, lack of exercise, genetics, age,
overweight, hypertension.
Exercise post-heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Low intensity, aerobic, build up duration and
frequency. Resistance training down the track.
Surgery for a heart attack - Correct answers✔✔Angioplasty and stent - go into the artery with
chicken wire and a balloon to push the block (plaque) against the walls and restore blood flow.
By-pass surgery - graft on another blood vessel to "by-pass" the block.
Aneurysm - Correct answers✔✔Bulge or balloon in a blood vessels that weakens it - more likely
to burst.
Thrombosis - Correct answers✔✔Block that occurs at the site - plaque build up or blood clot to
repair damaged vessel.
Embolus - Correct answers✔✔Travelling plaque or blood clot that then gets wedged to block a
blood vessel.
Atherosclerosis - Correct answers✔✔Process of plaque build up over time.
Ischemia - Correct answers✔✔Loss of blood flow due to a block.
Hemorrhage - Correct answers✔✔Burst blood vessel.
