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Straightening the hip joint is referred to as extending the hip joint (iliofemoral joint). There are several muscles that do this, mainly the gluteus maxiumus.
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Which joint the hip or the knee is more stable?
The hip joint is more stable due to the weight and protection of the pelvis and surrounding muscle tissue.
Which joint allows the hip to climb the stairs?
The answer is a ball-and-socket joint.
Which type of joint allows your knee to bend?
a joint called the hinge joint allows you to bend and straighten your knees!!:)
Which type of joint allows hip to climb stairs?
The answer is a ball-and-socket joint.
Which type of joint allows the hip to climb stairs?
The answer is a ball-and-socket joint.
An a example of a Slightly moveable joint?
an example of a slightly moveable joint would be the sternoclavicular joint. This is the joint between your collarbone and your sternum (chest). There is some movement at this joint, which is what allows you to shrug or straighten your shoulders, but not nearly as much as one would find in the elbow or hip joints
What muscle of the quadriceps muscle group is the only muscle to cross the hip joint?
That would be the rectus femoris.
What muscle flexed the hip and the knee?
That is incorrect! The hamstring group extend the thigh at the hip joint!
What is the heaviest muscle in the human body which serves to straighten the leg at the hip during walking?
gluteus maximus
What joint allows the body to use the hip?
Ball and socket.
What type of joint allows twistingturning sliding as in the vertebrae?
A ball and socket joint allows twisting and turning side to side. It humans this would be the hip joint
What is a type of joint that allows no movement which is found in the hip and the scull?
Pivot
