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How many Systems are in the body?

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10
Skeletal
Circulatory
Digestive
Endocrine
Lymphatic (Immune)
Muscular
Respiratory
Excretory (Urinary)
Nervous
Reproductive

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How many bones are in the human body?

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206

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What are joints?

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where 2 or more bones make contact

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Types of Joints? In yoga we focus on these three?

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Hinge
Ball and Socket
Intervertebral/Compressive

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What is Fascia? Where is it located?

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Continuous sheet of fibrous tissue located beneath the skin and around everything in the body.

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What does a Ligament do?

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Connects bone to bone, stabilizes the joint - have limited to no elasticity.

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What does a Tendon do?

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Connects muscle to bone

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How many vertebrae/bones in the cervical spine?

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7

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How many vertebrae/bones in the Thoracic Spine?

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12

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How many vertebrae/bones in the Lumbar Spine?

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5

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How many vertebrae/bones in the Sacral Spine

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5

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How many vertebrae/bones in the Coccyx

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3 - 5

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How many primary Chakras are there?

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7
1. Muladhara - Root
2. Svadhisthana - Sacrum
3. Manipura - solar plexus - just below the rib cage.
4. Anahata - heart center
5. Vishuddha - throat
6. Ajna - Third eye
7. Sahasrara - crown of head

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What are the three planes of movement?

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  1. Sagittal Plane
  2. Coronal Plane
  3. Transverse Plane
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What are the two ranges of motion for Sagittal Plane?
Summersalt

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  1. Flexion - Forward
  2. Extension - Back
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What are the two ranges of motion for the Coronal Plane?
Cartwheel
Pelvis: “Disco”

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  1. Abduction - Out/Away - (I’m being abducted)
  2. Adduction - Adding limb back in.
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What are the two ranges of motion in Transverse Plane?
Pelvis: “Twist”

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  1. Internal Rotation
  2. External Rotation
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Creating less space in a joint is flexion, True or False?

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True

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List 5 functions of your bones

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  1. Create structure & support
  2. Allow for movement at joints
  3. Protect Internal Organs
  4. Store calcium and mineral salts
  5. Produce red and white blood cells
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Why is the spine so important?

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Spine is the central access of support and our unifying scaffold for movement.

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List the 6 functions of your spine

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  1. Protects the spinal cord
  2. provides planes of movement
  3. Houses ribs
  4. Site of muscle attachment
  5. Protects internal organs
  6. ease of movement - curves and discs provide shock absorbers
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Yoga is a ________ based practice?

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Spine

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Anatomical position looks like what pose?

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Mountain

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What plane is: Flexion and Extension

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Sagittal Plane

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What plane is: Abduction and Adduction
Coronal
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What plane is: Internal and External rotation?
Transverse Plane
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What plane of movement is the body in: Uttanasana (standing forward fold)?
Sagittal
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What plane of movement is the body in: Virabrhadrasana II (Warrior II)?
Coronal
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What plane of movement is the body in: Parivrtta Trikonasana (Revolved Triangle)
Transverse
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Abduction takes the limbs away from the body, True or False
True
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Name a pose where the thighs are adducted at the hip.
Mountain or Eagle
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Flexing one's toes back towards the shin brings the ankle into _______________ flexion?
Dorsal
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True or False: The Diaphragm contracts on the inhale?
True
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Does the diaphragm descend or recoil on the exhale?
recoil
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Ligaments connect __________ to ______________
bone to bone
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Tendons connect ___________ to _______________
Muscle to bone
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True or False: A joint is in a place where two bones articulate
True
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How many bones are there in a "normal" human body?
206
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List the 3 major sections of the spine?
Cervical, Thoracic & Lumbar
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How many vertebrae in the Thoracic spine?
12
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What plane is this?
Sagittal plane
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What plane is this?
Coronal Plane
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What plane is this?
Transverse plane
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A summer salt is an example of what plane?
Sagittal
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A cartwheel is an example of what plane?
Coronal
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The twist is an example of what plane?
Transverse
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List four functions of muscles
create movement stabilize and support the body - maintain posture Keep our heart beating move stuff through our body - food, waste blood
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three types of muscles in the body
Cardiac Smooth Striated or Skeletal
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Qualities /purpose of cardiac muscle:
1. Pump blood 2. only found in the heart 3. Involuntary 4. pumping blood to everywhere in body 5. fatigue resistant 6. Striated
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Qualities/purpose of smooth muscle:
Involuntary Digestion, moving food through the body, non-striated Uterus bladder eyes - iris skin - cold, hair stands up, etc. Fatigue resistant
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Qualities/purpose of skeletal muscle:
Voluntary Striated (aligned in one direction) movement, mobility heat production respiration stability contractibility (shorten only does not lengthen
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Involuntary, striated, resistant to fatigue (Muscle characteristic)
Cardiac Muscle
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Voluntary movement, striated (muscle)
Skeletal Muscle
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Involuntary, found in vessels and organs, non-striated (muscle)
Smooth Muscles
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What is connective Tissue?
Holds us together Composed of Fascia, Ligaments and Tendons
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Types of Connective Tissue
Supportive Connective Tissue - Bones Fluid Connective - Blood, Lymph Connective Tissue Proper - Fascia, Fat, Ligaments
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Connective Tissue - Most Dense, Bones & Cartilage
Supportive
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Connective Tissue - Most fluid, Blood, Lymph, Extracellular Matrix (ECM) or ground substance
Fluid
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Connective Tissue - Fascia, Fat, Ligaments, Tendons
Proper

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