KIN 2500 Chapter : Joints SI Worksheet

• School: LSU
• Department: Kinesiology: Professional Courses/Basic Activity Courses
• Course: KIN 2500
• Professor: All

Document Summary

A point of contactbetween 2 bones, between bone and cartilage, or between bone and your teeth. Movement: flexion lateral flexiom extension hyperextension abduction adduction circumduction elevation depression protraction retraction inversion eversiion dorsiflexion plantar flexion supination pronation opposition. Movement of the trunk in the frontal plane. Movement of a bone away form the midline of the body. Movement of a bone toward the midline of the body. When the distal end of a body part moves in a circle. Anterior movement of a body part in the transverse plane. Posterior movement of a body part in the transverse plane. Medial movement of the sole of the foot. Lateral movement of the sole of the foot. Bending the foot in the direction of the superior surface. Bending the foot in the direction of the sole of the foot. Movement of the thumb across the palm to touch fingertips on the same hand. Functional classification: synarthrosis: immovable, amphiarthrosis: slightly movable, diarthrosis: movable.