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Question | Answer |
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A sphygmomanometer is a device that measures what? | Blook pressure |
Q-angle of >25* may predispose an ath to what postural deviation? Excessive genu varus, excessive genu valgus, genu recurvatum, coxa valgus, coxa vara | Excessive genu valgus |
All the folloing are factors of LE overuse syndromes in runners except: poor footwear, poor posture, change in surface, short strides | short strides |
During a PPE physical, physican comes across a basketball player with: tall with armspan greater than height, pectus carinatum or excavatum, high-arched palate, and myopia. What is a probable diagnosis? | Marfan Syndrome |
Ath pulmonary function test via spirometry. What is the maximum amount of air that can be expired after a maximum inspiration called? | Vital Capacity |
During a PPE, an ath is diagnosed with myopia. What is the athletes problem? | nearsightedness |
All of the following are functions of the liver but:carb metabolism, detoxification of blood, protien synthesis, detoxification of the urine, bile production | Detoxification of Urine |
One method of estimating body fat has been through the use of skin-fold measurements at 4 sites, which include all but: biceps, triceps, suprailiac, suprascapular, non of the above | Suprascapular-skin fold measurements usually t aken from biceps, triceps, suprailiac, and subscapular areas |
In hot, wet enviornments, the ath, ability to adjust to significatnly increase Cardiovascular workload is limited by: hypoxia, hypervolemia, dehydration, hypernatremia, inability to disappate heat by evaporation | inability to disappate heat-ability to dissipate heat is severly limited in hot, humid enviornment because evaporation cannot occur unless volumes of dry air are available to absorb the water vapor given off |
When tsting physical conditioning of ath, coach askes the ath to spring 50 yards, What does this test?Aerobic endurance, vital capacity, LE power, power, anaerobic capacity | anaerobic capacity-running short distances stimulates the breat down of phosphocreatine into phosphorus and creatinine in muscle and glycogen &glucose to breakdown to lactic acid, allowing muscles to do work for short durations of time |