Joints & Movement

Bones held together by cartilage
intervertebral disks: pad of cartilage, epiphyseal plate: thin, immovable cartilage

Connect one bone to another with collagenous fibers
Suture: btw adj bones of the cranium, gomphosis: teeth, fits like peg in socket

Allow for extensive movement
Knee, elbow, fingers, articular processes of cervical-llumbar vertebrae

No movement between bones
Sutures of skull, epiphyseal plates

Little movement between bones
Intervertebral disks, pubic symphysis

Freely movable joints
Knee, elbow, finters, vertebrae

Decreae in joint angle from anatomical position (bend elbow)

Return to anatomical position of a part of the body that was flexed (straightening bent knee)

Movement of the limbs in teh corresponding plane away from the body (superman)

Return of teh body to anatomical position after abduction (jumping jacks)

Circular movement of a part of the body (lateral or medial)

Lateral rotation of the hand (palm facing out)

Medial rotation of a body part (foot pointed inward, palm facing back)

Movement in a cone shape; point of cone being proximal (arm circles)

Horizontal movement in anterior direction (jutting jaw forward)

Reverse of protraction (bringing jaw back from anterior to posterior)

move body part in a superior direction (shrugging shoulders)

Move in inferior direction (unshrug shoulders)

Turning body part medially (turning feet inward, soles facing each other)

Turning body part laterally (soles facing outward)