Anatomical Bases of Human Motion

What position is this called?

• Anatomy and physiology

• Anatomical reference position

• Kinematic and kinetic pose

• Reference point

Words that describe where things are on the body are known as...

• Signboards

• Orientational terms

• Directional terms

Superior is...

• further away from head

• closer to head

Posterior is....

• towards the back of the body

• towards the front of the body

• in the middle of the body

Lateral is....

• closer to the midline of the body

• away from the midline of the body

• side to side

The reference plane cuts the body into half

• true

• false

The frontal plane divides the body into __________ and _________ half.

• right, left

• top, bottom

• front, back

Which plane does these movement occurs in?

• transverse plane

• frontal plane

• sagittal plane

What is the picture referring to?

• Directional terms

• Orientational terms

• Reference plane

• Reference axis

Which plane does these movements occur in?

• Frontal plane

• Sagittal plane

• Transverse plane