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Several joints allow range of motion, it depends on what kind of range of motion you are talking about. Ball & socket joints (such as the shoulder) allow circumduction, abduction and adduction; hinge joints (such as knee and elbow joints) allow flexion and extention.
In our joints our hinge joints are located between two bone our hinge joint is our elbow.
Hinge joints are so named because they resemble hinges, like one might find on a door. Some familiar examples of hinge joints are the elbow, which joins the humerus with the ulna, and the knee, which joins the femur with the tibia. Like a door, these joints can move back and forth, in one plane only, but cannot swivel or move in any other directions (except slight side to side movement). Flexion and extension are the only two types of movements allowed in case of hinge type of joints. Flexion decreases the angle and Extension increases the angle.Flexion and Extension
Synovial Hinge
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No of the joints listed are hinge joints; joints that allow only abduction and adduction. The knee is a synovial pivotal hinge The hip is a synovial ball and socket The shoulder is a synovial ball and socket The neck is complex combination of joints between the occipital bone and C1 - synovial condyloid; the C1 and C2 - synovial pivotal; and the C2 and C3, C3 and C4, C4 and C5, C5 and C6, C6 and C7, C7 to T1 - all cartilaginous symphysis
Several joints allow range of motion, it depends on what kind of range of motion you are talking about. Ball & socket joints (such as the shoulder) allow circumduction, abduction and adduction; hinge joints (such as knee and elbow joints) allow flexion and extention.
Hinge joints permit motion in one plane only. The largest hinge joint in the human body is the knee, though the knee does allow a slight degree of side-to-side movement.
In our joints our hinge joints are located between two bone our hinge joint is our elbow.
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No, synovial joints joints are freely movable joints. There are six types of synovial joints: gliding (arthrodial), hinge (ginglymus), pivot (trochoid), ellipsoid, saddle, and ball and socket.
Hinge joints
Hinge joints are so named because they resemble hinges, like one might find on a door. Some familiar examples of hinge joints are the elbow, which joins the humerus with the ulna, and the knee, which joins the femur with the tibia. Like a door, these joints can move back and forth, in one plane only, but cannot swivel or move in any other directions (except slight side to side movement). Flexion and extension are the only two types of movements allowed in case of hinge type of joints. Flexion decreases the angle and Extension increases the angle.Flexion and Extension
Synovial Hinge
The knee is a hinge joint. All the other joints have a certain amount of side movement. 2nd Answer: The elbows are also classified as hinge joints - other than size, they are almost identical to knee joints.
A hinge joint. Using your knee as an example of what this means: Standing up you can bend the knee so that your leg is bent behind you, but you cannt twist it or move it in any other way. This is what it is meant by only one plane of movement. Other joints such as your shoulder allow you to move your arm in many different ways meaning it has several planes of movement.
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