The knees, toes, and fingers are all hinge synovial joints.
To name a few, the shoulder, the knee, the elbow, the fingers and toes are all joints
The knees, toes, and fingers are all hinge synovial joints.
There are actually four. The hinge, ball in socket, pivot, and sliding joints. hinge is the elbow, knee, fingers, and toes. ball in socket is the waste. pivot is neck and forearm.Sliding is the wrist and the ankle.
The fingers and toes may be long and slender, with loose joints that can be bent beyond their normal limits.
Phalangesphalanges is the fingers and toes
Nothing scientific behind my answer, but what helped me, was i just made a Really tight fist. I did this because it helped stretch my fingers/toes/jaw/etc
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.
I have had Gout in my toes, ankle, knee, hip, elbow, wrist, fingers and chin.
Since joints are articulating surfaces, they are movable. Ball and socket joints are the shoulder and hip. Everything that moves is a joint of some kind...thumb, elbow, ankle, wrist, fingers, toes...
The knees, toes, and fingers are all hinge synovial joints.
The joints at the base of the fingers are called metacarpal phalangeal joints (MPJ's) and form knuckles when you make a fist. These are elliposoidal joints. The ones that are in the fingers themselves are called interphalangeal joints. The thumb only has one called a proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP) and the other four fingers each have two. The first one is called the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP)and the last one is the distal interphalangeal joint (DIP. These are all hinge joints.
The five freely movable joints are, Ball & socket- Shoulder, hip hinge joint- Knee, elbow, fingers, toes, jaw gliding- wrist, ankle, vertebrae pivot- neck saddle- carpometacarpal of thumb there are actually 6 !!! there is the condyloid joint as well which is found in the wrist