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a decrease in the joint angle from anatomical position.
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- If you bend your shoulder, you are flexing your forearm.
- Bending forward at the waist is flexion of the vertebral column.
- Loking at your toes is flexion of the head. |
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is a return to anatomical position of a part of the body that was flexed.
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- If you are looking at your toes and lift your head back to anatomical position, you are extending your head. |
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is a extension of tha part of the body beyond anatomical position.
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- When you are about to roll a bowling ball and your arm reaches the very back of the arc you are hyperextending your arm. |
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| is a movement of the limbus in the coronal plane away from the body (abduct = to take away). abduction is taking away a part of the body in a lateral direction. |
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is the return af the part of the body to anatomical position after abduction.
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- In doing "jumping jack," you are abducting and adducting in series. |
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| is the circular movement of a part of the body. |
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is lateral rotation ( moves the anterior surface of the limb toward the lateral sid of the body.) of the hand.
- The hands are supinated when the body is in anatomic position. |
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is medial rotation ( turns the anterior surface of the limb toward the midline) of the hands.
- When you turn your palms posteriorly from anatomic position, you are pronating your hands. |
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| is the movement of a muscle in a conical shape, with the point of the cone being proximal. |
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| is horizontal movement in the anterior direction, as in jutting the chin forward. |
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| is the reverse of protraction. The jaw that moves from anterior to posterior is retracted. |
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| means to move in a superior direction. Elevation of the shoulders occurs when you shrug your shoulders. |
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| is the opposite of elevation; it is movement in the inferior direction. |
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| refers to movement of the feet. Turning the soles of the feet medially so they face each other. |
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| means turning the soles of the feet laterally. |
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| is a movement in which the toes are elevated, as one might o in applying toenail polish. |
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| is movement of the oot so te toes point downward, as in pressing the gas pedal of a car or standing on tiptoes. |
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