What are the 12 different movement of the joints?

Types of joint movement

Joint Type Movement
Elbow Hinge Flexion, extension
Knee Hinge Flexion, extension
Hip Ball and socket Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction
Shoulder Ball and socket Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction

What is flexion extension abduction and adduction?

Abduction is the movement away from the midline of the body. Adduction is the movement toward the middle line of the body. Extension is the straightening of limbs (increase in angle) at a joint. Flexion is bending the limbs (reduction of angle) at a joint. Rotation is a circular movement around a fixed point.

What plane of motion is thumb extension?

coronal plane
Thumb movements. The thumb is rotated 90° to the other digits. Thus, abduction and adduction occur in a sagittal plane and flexion and extension occur in a coronal plane.

What is extension of the thumb?

The movements at each thumb joint are flexion and extension (called radial abduction in the CMCJ) and additional movements of anteposition, retroposition and opposition at the CMCJ, due to the saddle shape of the articulation.

What is flexion vs extension?

Flexion and extension are movements that occur in the sagittal plane. They refer to increasing and decreasing the angle between two body parts: Flexion refers to a movement that decreases the angle between two body parts. Extension refers to a movement that increases the angle between two body parts.

Where does flexion and extension occur?

(a)–(b) Flexion and extension motions are in the sagittal (anterior–posterior) plane of motion. These movements take place at the shoulder, hip, elbow, knee, wrist, metacarpophalangeal, metatarsophalangeal, and interphalangeal joints.

Can you move your thumb and your fingers in the same way?

The fingers have three joints each, which can only be bent and stretched in one direction. The thumb is the only digit that can twist, thanks to the saddle-shaped carpometacarpal joint.

What are the 3 axis of rotation?

These three axes, referred to as longitudinal, lateral and vertical, are each perpendicular to the others and intersect at the aircraft centre of gravity. Motion around the longitudinal axis, the lateral axis and the vertical axis are referred to as roll, pitch and yaw respectively.

Is making a fist flexion or extension?

Anatomical terms describing movement Flexion – A bending movement that decreases the angle between two parts. Eg. You flex your fingers when you clench your fist. Extension – A straightening movement that increases the angle between two parts.

Is there a way to extend your thumb?

Thumb Extension Put your hand flat on a table. Wrap a rubber band around your hand at the base of your finger joints. Gently move your thumb away from your fingers as far as you can. Hold for 30 to 60 seconds and release.