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The purpose is so that your body can bend
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What do the hips do?
The hip joint (iliofemoral joint) is a ball-and-socket joint that provides a wide range of movement. Its main purpose is to provide articulation for the femur bone.
What do hip joints do?
The hip joint (iliofemoral joint) is a ball-and-socket joint that provides a wide range of movement. Its main purpose is to provide articulation for the femur bone.
Is the shin bone a piviot joint?
The tibia, or shin bone, is not a joint.
What occurs when a bone is forced out of its joint?
A dislocation happens when a bone is forced out of its joint.
What part of the skeleton is a ball and socket joint?
The hip bone and the shoulder bone its the knee bone joint
What are terms used for displacement of a bone from its joint?
Partial displacement of a bone from its joint is a medical subluxation. Complete displacement of a bone from its joint is a dislocation.
What purpose do ligaments have in the body?
Ligaments are soft fibrous tissue which connect bone to bone. Their primary functions in the body are to determine a joint's range of motion and to protect joints and bones.
Is a knee a joint bone or tendon?
The knee itself is made of ligaments cartilage and bone, and the kneecap is made of bone.
What is the different between bone and joint?
a bone moves when a joint doesn't.Bones are stiff, joints are bendy.
Occurs when a bone is forced out of its joint?
A dislocation happens when a bone is forced out of its joint.
Name three types of articulations in the body?
The three functional articulations are synarthrosis which is an immovable join and example would be a suture, amphiarthrosis a slightly immovable joint an example is the symphysis, and last the diarthrosis a freely movable joint such as the elbow or knee joint.
What is the purpose of cartilage at joint locations?
The articular cartilage are spongy cushions that absorb compression placed on the joint and keep the bone ends from being crushed. When the 2 bones rub against each other, they'll be rubbing on the cartilage not on the bone. If the bones really rub against each other, then you will have joint problems like osteoarthritis (swollen joint, pain).
