IMED1001 Lecture 20: LECTURE 20, prime movers of the axial and appendicular skeleton, joints,

• School: UWA
• Department: Integrated Medical Sciences
• Course: IMED1001
• Professor: avinash

Document Summary

Prime movers of the axial and appendicular skeleton. Know flexion, extension of leg and arm. Body leaning neck/forward is flexion or extension. Leg is the knee to the foot. Anatomical position is supination, move palms down is pronation. Dorsiflexion> top of foot closer to tibia. Plantarflexion- bottom of foot closer to tibia. Prime mover of flexion of the arm at the shoulder joint. Prime mover of extension of the arm at the shoulder joint. Prime mover of flexion of the forearm at the elbow joint. Located in anterior compartment of arm, deep to biceps brachii m. Prime mover of supination of the forearm at the radioulnar joint. Prime movers of pronation of the forearm at the proximal and distal radioulnar joints. Prime mover of extension of the hand at the wrist joint. Lacted in superficial portion of the posterior compartment of forearm. Prime mover of extension of the forearm at the elbow joint.