A Nurse Is Teaching a Health Promotion Class About Isotonic

question 4

Multiple Choice

A nurse is teaching a health promotion class about isotonic exercises. Which types of exercises will the nurse give as examples?

• A) Swimming, jogging, and bicycling
• B) Tightening or tensing of muscles without moving body parts
• C) Quadriceps set exercises and contraction of the gluteal muscles
• D) Push-ups, hip lifting, pushing feet against a footboard on the bed

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Definitions:

Opposable Thumb

The arrangement of the fingers so that they are positioned opposite the thumb, enabling the organism to grasp objects.

Foramen Magnum

The opening in the vertebrate skull through which the spinal cord passes.

Arboreal

Living in trees.

Earliest Primates

The most ancient members of the primate order, believed to have appeared in the Paleocene epoch, characterized by adaptations for arboreal life.