Movements Of Synovial Joints

One flat bone surface glides over another without appreciable angulation or rotation.

Increase or decrease the angle between two bones

Angular Movement; bending movement, usually along the sagittal plane, that decreases the angle of the joint and brings the articulating bones closer together.

Angular Movement; reverse of flexion and occurse at the same joints. It involves the movement along the sagittal plane that increases the angle between the articulating bones, such as straightening a flexed neck, body trunk, elbow, or knee.

Angular Movement; Bending the head backward beyond its straight position.

Angular Movement; Lifting the foot so that its superior surface approaches the shin.

Angular Movement; Depressing the foot (pointing the toes).

Angular Movement; movement of a limb away from the midline or median plane of the body, along the frontal plane.

Angular Movement; movement of a limb toward the body midline or, in the case of the digits, toward the midline of the hand or foot.

Angular Movement; moving a limb so that it describes a cone in space; the distal end of the limb moves in a circle, while the point of the cone is more or less stationary.

Turning of a bone around its own long axis.

Rotating the forearm laterally so that the plam faces anteriorly or superiorly is supination.

The forearm rotates medially and the palm faces posteriorly or inferiorly.

The sole of the foot turns medially

The sole faces laterally