Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sternoclavicular Joint, Transverse Plane, Metatarsophalangeal Joints

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2241A/B
• Professor: Thomas Richard Jenkyn

Document Summary

The reference position for the human body as agreed by anatomists, biomechanists, doctors, etc. Standing upright, arms down, palms forward, knees together, toes forward. For segment motion, the anatomical position may not be convenient for your analysis. For each joint or body position, you decide what the. This is the segment or joint position where the angle is neutral position is defined as zero degrees. A plane is an imaginary, perfectly flat surface. We can imagine 3 passing through the human body, each at right angles to each other (i. e. mutually orthogonal) Sagittal plane (splits body into left and right sides) Transverse plane (splits body into upper and lower) Frontal plane (splits body into front and back) Principal axes right angles to the plane mathematically defines the plane uniquely. Each plane has one axis , which is the line that is at. This is known as the plane"s normal vector and. The principal axes pair with the principal planes.